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| Calif. prison guard's firing over suicide upheld |
| By sfgate.com - Bob Egelko |
| Published: 03/15/2012 |
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A state appeals court has upheld the firing of a prison guard who, according to a co-worker, told a suicidal inmate that she should go ahead and hang herself. After the November 2006 encounter with guard Thomas Norton, the inmate was found hanging from a bedsheet tied to a bar in her cell at the California Institution for Women in Chino (San Bernardino County). Another guard untied the sheet and removed her, and she recovered without injury, the court said. Norton, a correctional officer at the prison since 1997, denied telling the woman to hang herself, and also denied calling his fellow guard a "rat" and a "snitch" for reporting the incident. In Tuesday's ruling, however, the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Riverside said the accusations were supported by credible evidence, and justified the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's decision to fire Norton. Read More. |
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Apparently the evidence proved that the officer did tell the inmate to hang herself which certainly is a major mistake in judgment. Every year COs (I guess they call them guards in this article) go through extensive training in prevention of suicides, not encouraging them. As a professional correction officer you should always be alert for suicides, do extra rounds at varying times and document your visits to the dorms or tiers.