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| N.Y. Prison Officer Claims Abuse |
| By Capitol News |
| Published: 05/20/2003 |
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Picketers outside the Washington Correctional Facility said its officers are being treated unfairly. Officer Soriano, WCF Union Member, said, 'When we do something that we're not supposed to do and we don't follow guidelines, we are held accountable for everything that we do, I feel it should go up the line.' In April, when the nation was on orange alert, the WCF stopped allowing inmate crews from working outside prison walls, but at the same time, a crew from a prison an hour away came to Comstock to do a WCF job; the officer in charge didn't like that. Annoyed, the officer filed a grievance. Two days later he learned his work crew was being cut. The same day, in front of inmates, he said his supervising officer paid him back for causing trouble. Chris Hansen, WCF Union Representative, said, 'It was very spontaneous, inmates were involved, the officer had his back to the supervisor, and the supervisor came up and grabbed him by the arm and spun him around.' After the incident, the officer's blood pressure shot up, sending him to the emergency room. Union President Rick Harcrow said, 'These officers were so angry. There were some officers that wanted to walk off the job to show how angry they were over the treatment of this officer by this management official.' The Department of Corrections is investigating the case, but Spokesman Jim Flateau believes there was no assault, saying the officer's crew was not cut as payback for filing a grievance. He added that the DOC commissioner can arbitrarily dissolve work gangs. But these protesters don't buy it. They want what they consider an offending supervisor, removed. |
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