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| Conn. DOC Report Blames Security Lapses for Escape |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/10/2002 |
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Security lapses led to the April escape of a prisoner at the Hartford Correctional Center, according to a report by the state's Department of Correction. At least six staff members face disciplinary action and possible dismissal following the escape of Jair Ramirez on April 9, Correction Commissioner John Armstrong said recently. Ramirez, 23, was fully shackled with belly chains and leg irons, and wearing a prison jumpsuit when he escaped from the Correctional Center's Jennings Street garage about 9:30 p.m. after a court appearance in which he failed to post $500,000 bail. He was in a group of inmates being loaded into a van for transfer to the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. The two correctional officers responsible for transporting a total of 15 inmates onto the bus failed to conduct the required identity checks of inmates prior to entering and departing the vehicle, according to the report. The officers did not notice Ramirez was missing until they arrived in Suffield. A tow truck driver saw Ramirez, chained and shackled, minutes after his escape and reported it to an officer at Hartford Correctional Center, according to the report. But that information was not passed on to law enforcement agencies for more than two hours. ''This event will serve as a hard learned lesson,'' Armstrong said. The report was released four days after Ramirez, 24, was apprehended in New Jersey. |
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