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| Corrections officers, union official call for more staffing at federal prisons |
| By thetimes-tribune.com - Bob Kalinowski |
| Published: 03/14/2013 |
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Eric Williams faced death alone, armed with keys, handcuffs and a radio with a "panic button." Death had a makeshift knife and nothing to lose. The Feb. 25 slaying of Officer Williams allegedly at the hands of Jessie Con-ui, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary, Canaan, is another shocking stain on a prison with a brief but bloody history. Since the facility opened in 2005, more than a dozen inmates have been charged with assaulting correctional officers or each other. In the last three years, three inmates have been stabbed to death. A high-security institution, one rung below maximum security, Canaan is home to hard men, including Somali pirate Mohammad Shibin, al-Qaida conspirator Abdul Kadir and James Kopp, who made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for the 1998 sniper murder of an Amherst, N.Y., abortion doctor. Read More. |
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