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PHOENIX (AP) A teacher at an Arizona prison was alone in a room full of sex offenders before being stabbed and sexually assaulted by a convicted rapist, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press about an attack that highlighted major security lapses at the facility.
The attack occurred Jan. 30 at the Eyman prison's Meadows Unit, which houses about 1,300 rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders. The teacher was administering a high school equivalency test to about a half-dozen inmates in a classroom with no guard nearby and only a radio to summon help. The Department of Corrections issued only a bare-bones press release after the attack, but the AP pieced together what happened based on interviews and investigatory reports obtained under the Arizona Public Records Act.
After the last of the other inmates left, Jacob Harvey asked the teacher if she could open the bathroom and then attacked her, records show. Harvey is accused of stabbing her in the head with a pen, forcing her to the ground and raping her.
The teacher told investigators that she screamed for help, but none came. Afterward, Harvey tried to use her radio to call for help. It had apparently been changed to a channel the unit's guards didn't use, so Harvey let the woman use a phone, according to the reports.
full: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/teachers-rape-prison-raises-security-concerns
shenmue
(38,506 posts)BainsBane
(53,016 posts)seems inconceivable that a guard would be no where around AND that their radios weren't working.
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)Sometimes locking them up and throwing away the key is really the best option.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I'd like the little fucker lined up against a wall and shot.
progressiveinaction
(150 posts)Especially when someone hasn't been convicted yet?
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)And conviction will come soon enough, not a lot of doubt about the perpetrator.
progressiveinaction
(150 posts)innocent people will die. Are you OK with that?
And I guess you're not too big on the whole notion of "innocent until proven guilty". There are a lot of cases where a person looks guilty as all hell, and ends up not being the person who committed the crime.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)that is exonerating people is also being used to make damn good and sure we have caught the correct perpetrator. Mistakes made in the past because we didn't have a technology don't affect my belief that some criminals are too vicious to even be allowed to live in prison for the rest of their natural lives. This asshat screwed someone who was trying to help him get a GED, for chrissakes.
Where did I say that I was not in favor of due process for this perpetrator? If it wasn't him, then it was someone else in that room, and I'm going to believe the victim in this case. Chances are that everybody else in the room is going to confirm it, since they don't want direct blame for it.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)easy peasy---
DNA evidence, you get one shot at an appeal, has to happen within one year-
After that fails-
You get shot...then cremation and ashes thrown in the wind so no land gets wasted on a burial plot-
progressiveinaction
(150 posts)There again, has there been a conviction?
Hekate
(90,561 posts)You have to read it to believe they could actually talk that way.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)I wonder if that was included in the job description?
If you work here, you can expect to get raped by a violent sex offender you will be teaching?
Fla Dem
(23,590 posts)InfoWingerWatch
(78 posts)What can these child raping predators possible do with one?