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| Prison officer resigns after incident |
| By Delaware Online |
| Published: 08/02/2004 |
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The prison officer who was controlling two security doors a serial rapist passed through this month before abducting and raping a 27-year-old female counselor has resigned, a corrections official said last Wednesday. The officer submitted her resignation after the incident, prisons spokeswoman Noreen Renard said. Renard would not identify the corrections officer, and said officials did not know whether the hostage standoff caused the employee to quit. Renard said she was speaking on behalf of state corrections commissioner Stanley W. Taylor Jr., who could not be reached. Taylor has said only one officer was manning the control booth before the counselor was abducted. David Knight, senior vice president of the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, said he did not know the employee had resigned. But he said four female officers quit after the standoff, "because of what happened." The counselor was held for nearly seven hours July 12 after she was taken prisoner at knifepoint by Scott A. Miller, 45, who was serving 699 years for rape, assault and kidnapping. The standoff at the Delaware state prison near Smyrna ended when a rescuer hiding in the ceiling shot Miller to death. Prison officials have since barred prisoners in the medium-high security building from passing through the two security doors that lead to the counselor's office area. Both doors are now stenciled with the words, "NO INMATES BEYOND THIS POINT." Taylor also has said officials have made other security changes, which he would not detail. |
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