Prison Lockdowns Exacerbate Pandemic- COVID Compassion Campaign pt 3

 

Prison Lockdowns Exacerbate Pandemic

On Tuesday, May 19, at 1pm, Forum for Understanding Prisons (FFUP) will present our third COVID Compassion Campaign online press conference.This conference will focus on Columbia Correctional Institution (CCI) a facility notorious for lockdowns, racist staff, and violent instability.

Our speakers will talk about how CCI's restrictive lockdown and security measures that function as collective punishment,

Open Letter to Makda Fessahaye regarding COVID-19 precautions, testing practices, and issues.

Hello Ms Fessahaye, 

I have a number of questions I was hoping would get answered by calling the new hotline, but they directed me to send them to you in writing instead. I also asked you some of these things on the phone Monday. I hope you can clarify and be more forthright with this important information.

First, on Monday you said DOC was following DHS guidelines. The guidelines we found (at https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/dph/memos/communicable-diseases/2020-07.pdf) state that "Staff who have had close contact with patients with confirmed COVID-19 should be restricted from work." As I reported Monday, staff at Columbia CI admitted to having contact

Open letter to DOC and Legislature

Open letter sent to DOC Secretary Kevin Carr, DAI admin Makda Fessahaye, and 11 elected officials on relevant committees:

We just received the following message from Bill Ledford, who is held at Columbia Correctional Institution. He's a multi-amputee diabetic, living with others with serious medical issues and immune compromises. Nurses working there have admitted to being exposed to covid-19, but are not self-quarantining because the DOC requires them to keep coming to work. Bill's letter is below.

The DOC has reported three staff members with confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Columbia CI. They have only ordered 6 tests of people incarcerated there, two of which were positive, and three are still pending results.

CCI's Warden, Susan Novak has a history of egregious medical neglect, including refusing for months to administer flu vaccines the facility had received.

People held at CCI have reported ambulances arriving and picking people up on March 3, 4, and 28th. We don't know if these ambulances are covid related or not, but many people at CCI and other facilities have symptoms and are not getting tested.

Many are afraid to report symptoms or request testing because they expect to be moved to segregation, losing their property and ability to communicate with the outside world. At Waupun CI, Doctor Jefferey Manlove was confirmed with covid on March 18 and dozens of people were sick, but only 3 have been tested. 

In the first days after that exposure, our friend Elijah Prioleau (id 420053) reported witnessing guards pointing tasers at sick people's heads and taking them to disciplinary segregation because they reported symptoms and didn't want to go to quarantine. Elijah has called us with more information repeatedly, and last week staff responded by trying to silence him. They moved him to a cell with someone who has a history of battery so that, if he defends himself against that person, staff can put him in segregation and sever his communication with us.

WILLIAM LEDFORD (80495)

4/12/2020 5:43:31 AM exposure issues
Yesterday morning at a.m. medication pass the nurse is wearing a surgical mask (her name is Jean), which she never has done before. When I ask her why she says because she had been exposed to someone who had tested positive to COVID-19. When asked her - somewhat stunned - why she was here and not self quarantining she quickly responds, "Well, I don't have any symptoms" and then hurries off! And I'm left thinking, just because you don't currently have symptoms doesn't mean you aren't contagious. And the CDC and President's Task Force every day are on TV stating if you have been exposed to someone who has tested positive you should self-isolate/quarantine. And here she is passing out medication on the one unit and one wing that has the most at risk and vulnerable prisoners in the whole DOC!!!!

To exacerbate the matter, later that day (4-10-20) I was called to get my lower legs wrapped in 4-layer bandaging. And the same nurse, Jean, this time without even a mask, is the one assigned to the bandaging! Really?!

It doesn't end there. Just earlier this evening (4-11-20) Sgt. Cascaddan comes onto the wing. She has a mask on as well when she never has before. She, too, admits that she had been exposed to someone who had COVID-19. When I asked her why the hell she wasn't self a quarantining, she replied that she couldn't, that the DOC had ordered that they come into work unless they were showing symptoms! The implication being that if they didn't come into work that they would be fired or disciplined. Again, is contrary to the instructions/directives of federal and state authorities and the CDC.

BEN, you should really contact that lawyer friend and see if he can help us and stop the DOC from doing this, putting us at severe risk. This is not going to be good for us! You might want to get a hold of  [media] also. This is just moronic and irresponsible on the part of the DOC and CCI.

Thanks! You all be well and stay safe as possible!

Bill Ledford

Secretary Carr's Public Statements Inconsistent with Reality at Columbia CI

In our Wisconsin Death Trap report, we predicted that "Secretary Carr and his top level staff may [create policies, but] implementation... depend[s] on wardens, unit managers, and sargeants. Many of those staff members loathe incarcerated people and have long treated them as deserving of nothing but misery and slow death." Below we present the first evidence of this prediction coming true. There will be more to come.

More words about COVID-19 from people incarcerated in WI prisons are being collected here.

From James Emerson, held at Columbia Correctional (hastily written and transcribed, please forgive spelling, typographic and grammar errors).

Write to James:
 
James J Emerson

168690Columbia Correctional Institution
PO Box 900
Portage WI 53901

Today on Wisconsin public radio had an interview with secretary Kevin A Carr of the DOC. Most of the interview was based around the doc' s readiness in regard to the covid 19,virus that is spreading around the country. As your readers are likely aware, all doc visits have been suspended, except for professional visits ( attorney visits ) .

this is ,and I say this within CCI corr. the best way to prevent infection from reaching us.

Updates from inside Columbia Correctional Institution

These are statements regarding COVID-19 from people incarcerated at Columbia Correctional Institution. We will continuously update this document, with the newest information at the top.

Other than putting us on lockdown nothing has changed in regards to cleanliness.

• we were offered the two free phone calls for one week this week the computer controlled system isn't allowing it.

• the problem with allowing already arrogant incarcerated people to self regulate if they think they are sick, they are afraid to be quarantined so they will be sick and just pass it on. And some of the guys are so paranoid they scream medical emergency when they sneeze (multiple times a day screaming medical emergency).

Warden Novak continues to provoke instability at CCI

This is an open letter Ben from FFUP sent, along with related correspondence as a follow up to our meeting about the lockdown and conditions at CCI. We continue to gather information showing the poor conditions and destabilizing policies that Warden Novak and staff at Columbia Correctional create.

A full report on that will be forthcoming. We've received a lot of information and could use help compiling it. Anyone interested in volunteering to help with that, please contact Ben at Insurgent.ben@gmail.com. Thank you. 

Dear Makda, Kevin and Shannon,

Staff at CCI continue to engage in systemic unfair practices with the apparent intention of creating a needlessly hostile environment.

On February 8, a Sgt named Dustin Rohwer began issuing dozens of conduct reports for rules violations involving opened windows. Other Sgts did the same in other units. There are two problems with this:

First, rather than warning people that the rule against opening windows would be more strictly enforced, CCI staff just started handing out conduct reports, disrupting people's lives and visitation.

Nine Rule-change Recommendations

Account and recommendations from another survivor of the CCI lockdown, named Mathew  Schumacher. If you would like to support Matthew's efforts, please write to him. 

Matthew Schumacher
369487
Columbia Correctional Institution
PO BOX 900
Portage, WI 53901

I received your information from Mr. Jones after reading your notes from the Carr sit down. I would like to give you a little background about myself and then some of the changes that I think the DOC needs to look into.

I was 17 years old when I committed my crime and I received life without parole. I was a mess my first 10 years in prison. I was scared, angry, confused and I was still struggling with the demons that took me down the path I went down. I had no hope and I cared more about my prison reputation. I was staffed to GBCI in 2000 and only made it a few months before being shipped to the supermax. I was given a 360 for conspiring to escape and battery to staff. After a little over a year at the supermax I was sent to WRC due to the lawsuit against the supermax as I was deemed to have a serious mental illness and I could not be sent back.

Black Mass Incarceration, by DeWitt "King DoC" Faulkner

This essay was written by DeWitt Faulkner, a survivor of the CCI Lockdown.

You can write to DeWitt here:
DeWitt Faulkner
398508

Columbia Correctional Institution

P.O. Box 900

Portage, WI 53901-0900

Black Mass Incarceration

Wisconsin is in a period of unprecedented mass imprisonment. The U.S.as a whole lock up a greater amount of its citizens than any other nation, amounting to three million souls. A fivefold increase in prison population has been labeled one of the most startling cultural shifts of the last generation.  see..(Council on Crime and Justice,The collateral effects of incarceration on Fathers, and communities. 4(2006) (monograph) available @http://www.racialdispairty.org/files/CEI final200312006.pdf).citing Beck, A.J., Karberg, J., & Harrison. P.M. (2002). Prison and jail inmates at mid year 2001.

Columbia Hunger Striker Demands Met! Medical Staff Quitting at High Rate

We received a message from Damani Nantambu. Staff at CCI finally acknowledged his hunger strike and agreed to get him treatment. He is suspending the protest, but will resume if what they promised is not delivered.

He also reports that 6 nurses quit last month and more have put in notice due to Warden Novak's policies.

Damani's full message:

"I just wanted to let you know that I ended the hunger strike (the psychologist came to see me 10-days after the fact, then told me she was not going to do the Paper work since I agreed to eat).I found one of my hunger strike log sheets in The trash,which told me that they were trying, to undermine the hunger strike, by Not fully documenting it. I send you a copy, once I make them.

Report from January 22 meeting with DOC Secretary Kevin Carr and other officials.

These are notes from the meeting we had following our march on the DOC. We will send copies of these to hundreds of incarcerated people today via Corrlinks.

The meeting attendees included Secretary Carr, his assistant Shannon Carpenter and the head of Division of Adult Institutions Makda Fessahaye on the DOC side. Myself, Rachel Kincade from Moses and Linda Rose from Soul Sessions. The meeting was supposed to be 30 minutes, but it went on for more than an hour, making Secretary Carr late for his next meeting.

We definitely appreciate their willingness to take time and meet with us. We came away with the impression that Secretary Carr and his newer heads of staff believe they are doing their best, but we remain impatient. We were over-all disappointed with the lack of detail, transparency, and commitment in this meeting and the lack of progress in DOC reforms.

Demand #1 Fire or discipline Warden Novak and other staff

Secretary Carr said that he meets with Warden Novak regularly and had a meeting with her recently. He said he doesn't think she broke any rules or did anything fireable, but would not hesitate to fire her if she did. When we asked him about specific issues that include what we understand to be violations, though, he was evasive.

March on the DOC reportback

Today we had another good action at the DOC against lockdowns and calling for Warden Novak at CCI to be fired.

First, we gathered at Worthington Park for about 20 minutes, talking to reporters (NBC news editors cut all the specifics out) and sharing notes on what we've heard out of CCI. Only 10-15 people made it out on this cold Wednesday morning, but we made the most of it.

We also organized a phone zap for people who could not attend the action. 


Then we marched up to the visitor's entrance at the DOC. Chants of "Hey! Ho! Warden Novak's got to go!" bounced off the building and through the neighborhood. After our last action DOC administrators expressed willingness to meet with us, but they didn't actually set up a meeting time until last night. They also asked that they only meet with 2-3 representatives. Also, Secretary Carr was not available until noon. Unfortunately, we had already sent out invitations and press releases so we were unable to push back our action, but we still took the meeting with Carr.

"Death is here" report of continued CCI staff hostility causing more deaths

We have collected a number of new letters reporting on events and conditions at Columbia Correctional Institution (CCI). Incarcerated people continue to suffer and die under the authority of Warden Susan Novak.

Brief summaries

• Possible suicide- On January 14, a white Muslim man who uses a wheelchair or walker either fell or jumped off a 2nd floor tier and died the next day. 
• Possible suicide- On January 16, a close friend of Damani Nantambu died of heroin overdose, possibly suicide. 
• Four deaths tracked- This makes four deaths we've become aware of at CCI since the lockdown that started on November 8, 2019. Muhhamad (Larry) Bracey was killed on December 3, and we got mail to another prisoner returned with "convict dead" written on it in early November. 
• Pattern of Muslim fatalities- At least two of the four who died were Muslims and a third was a close friend of an Muslim organizer and protester. Racism and pro-Trump attitudes of staff at CCI are well-documented. Muslim prisoners are likely to receive heightened harassment and less attention to medical needs in this Islamophobic environment.
• False conduct reports- Staff continue to issue frivolous conduct reports. A man named Christopher Dawson was written up and lost his job because he told a guard to stop yelling at him.
• Staff instructed to increase hostility- When Dawson complained that the guard falsified the report and requested camera footage be reviewed, unit manager Lindsey Walker said "with everything that has happened we where told to be more aggressive an demanding with you guys" 
• Hunger striker threatened with a taser- On the 6th day of his hunger strike, Damani Nantambu avoided a similar confrontation with an aggressive sergeant by not speaking. In response, her supervisor threatened to tase Damani.

Sources

Columbia County Courts and Sheriff complicit in prison torture and death

For the last two months Columbia Correctional Institution (CCI) has been on a lockdown. The lockdown was officially lifted on December 22, but the facility continues to operate on "modified movement" status, and many lockdown restrictions remain in place, seemingly indefinitely.
FFUP has been monitoring the lockdown as closely as possible. Our correspondence has repeatedly been delayed because staff are improperly intercepting corrlinks emails and labeling them a "threat to the institution" when they contain nothing but descriptions of conditions, events, and violations of DOC administrative codes. We've also filed records requests, which the DOC is taking unusually long to respond to. We are an all-volunteer organization navigating these delays, but we will continue to investigate and release information as fast as we can.

County Sheriff complicit in covering up Death of Muhhamad (Larry) Bracey

We heard that Portage county sheriffs were investigating Mr Bracey's death and contacted them about letters we received about guards refusing Bracey treatment or access to his inhaler and the Warden's policy that medical staff only be alerted for emergencies. This policy and guards neglect clearly led to Bracey's death.

NYE Noise Demo and January 9 Solidarity March

On New Year's Eve around 30 people gathered outside Columbia Correctional Institution for a noise demo in solidarity with the people who've been locked down since November 8 because Black prisoners beat up racist guards.

Demonstrators made a huge racket with pots and pans, drums, whistles, a conch shell, vuvuzelas, a megaphone and hand-held air-raid sirens. We held a large banner with glow-in-the-dark letters that read "Fire Warden Novak" and chanted the same. Also: "you are not forgotten / you are not alone / we are gonna fight / to bring you home!" 

See video here.

We were heard throughout the residences. People inside responded by shouting and banging on their windows. With the concrete walls and distance between the buildings and the fence it was hard to distinguish much of what was said, but at one point when local Portage police showed up to monitor the demonstration, someone inside the prison saw them and shouted "fuck the police!"

A few days later supporters received word from inside:

Oh new years day [people] was protesting in front of the CCI. I'm surprised it didn't make the news with all the racket they made, I could hear them from my cell and I'm on one of the furthest units from the parking lot.

Later on New Years Eve some people also set off hundreds of fireworks outside the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) in solidarity with the campaign to close that facility. Video of that here, and here. 

On Thursday January 9, protestors will follow up with a march on the WI DOC Headquarters in Madison. From the Facebook event:

"Warden Susan Novak has implemented fatal policies and enabled abusive behavior by racist guards... Larry Bracey’s death is on Novak’s hands. Allowing her to continue operating any WI prison is irresponsible and a great moral failing. Join us in demanding change!"

Conditions at Columbia Correctional have been horrific for months and Forum For Understanding Prisons (FFUP) has been working with multiple people within the facility to expose the racism, violence and retaliation since the lockdown started. Between October 22 and November 8 three racist, petty, loudly Trump-supporting guards got beat down in separate incidents by black men imprisoned at CCI.

But, here it is 3-fervent Donald Trump supporting cops get a lil touched up by some black inmates and we’ve been on lockdown for 2-months.
- from a letter by Damani Nantambu at CCI

In response, Warden Susan Novak and staff have engaged in a wide variety of retaliation, collective punishment and repression. On December 3rd, staff CCI killed Muhhamad (Larry) Bracey through medical neglect. Warden Novak is refusing to administer flu vaccinations, endangering many with compromised immune systems at this over-crowded prison. A man named ODell Miller went on hunger strike demanding that Warden Susan Novak be fired, and Columbia County Judge Todd Hepler authorized staff force feeding him for a year, sealing the record to cover his complicity in that torture. 

Read more about the lockdown and these incidents here (chronological order):

• Warfare at CCI
• Updates from Nate Lindell and William Ledford 
• Muhammad (Larry) Bracey, killed by medical neglect during Columbia Correctional lockdown. Rest in Power!
• Warden Delaying Flu shots at CCI
  
•  CCI Lockdown update: retaliation, negligence, FIRE Warden Novak
• Damani Nantambu on CCI staff racism, assaults and lockdown  
• Columbia County Courts and Sheriff complicit in prison torture and death

Damani Nantambu on CCI staff racism, assaults and lockdown

We received a long letter from Damani M.Nantambu with new and more detailed information about the CCI lockdown. Damani provides insights into the assaults that occurred leading up to the lockdown, the death by medical neglect of Muhhamad (Larry) Bracey on December 3, and the hunger strike and force-feeding of Odell Miller, as well as many other conditions and incidents. We removed some information from his letter to protect the privacy of incarcerated people.


Date: 12/10/2019

Dear Peggy,

I want to thank you for the hard hitting piece of journalism you did on the piece titled “Warfare at Columbia Correctional Institute”. In this letter I hope to add and correct a few things that officials lied to you about and inmates got wrong.

But before I get to that, note I can’t tell you how much I regret not staying in touch with you when I first came to the state in 2012 from the feds (the super max in Colorado called ADX or “Alcatraz of the Rockies”.)  To serve the remainder of my federal sentence. Life W/O!!! It’s a long story about an class action.

* DEATH OF INMATE *

Also I’m sure you will want t know that inmate Muhhamad Bracey died on 12/3/19 in DSII in cell #8 after complaining for weeks of ill health! The LAST dirt bag he tried to get to help him was Sgt. L.P. She lied to the nurses and claim he was fine when she checked in on him, to determine if it was a medical emergency, the only type of medical aid, the Iron Lady (Sue Novak) would allow them to render aid to. She killed this man (Sue). Plain and simple. And he had been on ACC for “years”!!!

I filed a complaint for him already.

CCI Lockdown update: retaliation, negligence, FIRE Warden Novak .

Since our last update on the CCI lockdown, we have: 

• gathered news of retaliation, and threats of a staff walk-out
• got an article published in the Shepherd Express
• Learned devastating details about the Dec 3 death   
• Discovered that Warden Novak is preventing administration of flu shots

We continue to get more information and are moving to action. Please join us in calling for the termination of Warden Susan Novak, who is ultimately responsible for running the prison and has put everyone there at risk with bad policies, malice and deliberate indifference. 

Expanding retaliation 

A guard told one of our contacts that more than 50 people have been given tickets for insulting Warden Susan Novak. This contact was sent to the hole for discipline during the lockdown. He said: "Until yesterday I assumed I was the only one sent to the hole but I learned there were 6. All Black of course !!!!!"

In addition to the intercepted email and Conduct Report issued to Nate Lindell mentioned on a previous post, another organizer William Ledford has had an email about the lockdown intercepted because it "posed a threat to the security, orderly operation, discipline or safety of the institution." He filed an appeal and sent us a copy snailmail, including a transcription of the email. There's absolutely nothing in his message that constitutes a threat, just information about the lockdown and a request that the information get to the media and to Makda Fessahaye, the head of the Division of Adult Institutions (DAI). 

Hunger strike and possible second lockdown-related death

One of the letters we received mentioned a hunger strike by Odell Miller (ID#537774). The writer didn't say what Odell's demands were, but said he's 30 years old and has been hunger striking for nearly two months. 

Earlier this week an FFUP newsletter was returned unopened from CCI with "convict dead" written across the top of it. The person it had been sent to is no longer in the DOC database (which is what they do when someone dies, making it harder for the public to know what happened). It seems likely this person died at CCI during the lockdown, likely do to medical neglect. He was around 60 years old and had been locked up a while. 

We are trying to find out when and how he died, and to contact his next of kin, but the DOC is very reticent to release information about the people they kill.

Response from DAI 

On December 12, Makda Fessahaye replied to a December 4 email from FFUP about Mr Bracey's death (though at that time, we didn't know it was him or have details). She said his death is being investigated and emphasized a list of positive things or lefted restrictions that "did occur during this time." Some of the things she listed contradict reports from our friends in CCI, so we will check on them before sharing them.

Fessahaye's message ended with the following assurances:

The DOC is committed to working with law enforcement on their investigations and returning CCI to normal movement as soon as possible while maintaining the safety of those in our care and our staff.

Our staff share your passion for the safety and security of those in our custody. We encourage all of the people in our care to report any acts of misconduct through our inmate complaint process. Every inmate complete is investigated.

The Department of Corrections is committed to maintaining an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Any individuals who are found to have violated work rules will be held accountable.

We have concerns about these statements. First, it sounds like up to 50 people are being retaliated against for complaining. If Ms Fessahaye really wants to encourage people to file complaints, she needs to stop Warden Novak from retaliating against people for filing them.

Second, if the complaints investigations are being done by investigation supervisor Captain Pigeon, then there's no reason to have faith in them. Captain Pigeon has already obstructed sheriff's investigation by as reported by William Ledford here.

Third, there's a long history absent accountability for staff at CCI. If Fessahaye's assurance that people who violated work rules or engaged in discrimination, harassment and retaliation was acted on, many staff at CCI would face discipline or firing. The DOC considers CCI understaffed despite having a 1:3 staff to captive ratio, and staff are already threatening a mass walk-out over the people who took action to defend themselves against staff abuse, discrimination and harassment. It would be unreasonably optimistic to think that the DOC will hold their staff accountable on their own. We must demand it.

Demand Warden Susan Novak's termination

There are a number of staff problems at Columbia Correctional Institution, but the person ultimately responsible for conditions is Warden Susan Novak. A number of people who've written us say that she either originates the issues, or tolerates, allows and covers for staff abuse and neglect.

FFUP is joining in the calls from people held at CCI for Warden Novak's termination. We've organized a call-in event for Monday targeting Ms Fessahaye's office and demanding Novak be replaced. Please join this event, share it with friends, call in yourself and demonstrate that abuse, racism, retaliation, and killing people through medical neglect will not be tolerated in Wisconsin.

Warden Delaying Flu shots at CCI

Columbia Correctional Warden Susan Novak delayed flu vaccine to people at high risk. As of Dec 8, people, including aged people, diabetics and others with compromised immune systems had not received the flu shot they typically get in September. There was a vaccine shortage this year, but prisons are incubators for viruses because they confine many people in close quarters with low quality medical care and nutrition. If public safety was a genuine concern, distribution to prisons would be a priority, especially to high-risk people.

Even worse, it seems the facility had the vaccine by November 24 but did not administer it by orders of Warden Novak. Below is a transcription of William Ledford's letter detailing the situation.

Makda Fessahaye response to lockdown concerns

On December 12, Makda Fessahaye sent this response to our emails and calls about conditions at CCI and especially the death of Muhhamad Bracey.



"Thank you for contacting us regarding your concerns about the unexpected death at Columbia Correctional Institution (CCI) on December 3, 2019.

The investigation into this man’s death has been referred to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and Medical Examiner, as is our standard practice. The DOC also conducts an internal review whenever someone in our care passes away. Both of these investigations are ongoing. Due to privacy laws and the ongoing nature of these investigations, we cannot provide any further information at this time.

Muhammad (Larry) Bracey, killed by medical neglect during Columbia Correctional lockdown. Rest in Power!

Larry Bracey as a young man, from FFUP archives.

Today we received news that the man who was killed by medical neglect at Columbia Correctional was an old friend and organizer named Muhammad (state name Larry) Bracey.

Bracey fought hard against conditions in Wisconsin prisons, which is why he spent years in solitary confinement. The biggest tragedy is that he died during  the 29th year of his 30 year sentence. This freedom fighter was about to be released.

Updates on CCI lockdown from Nate Lindell and William Ledford

Letters from Nate Lindell and William Ledford. Both have reported trying to send more detailed accounts of the lockdown, but had their emails intercepted. Nate received two conduct reports for “disrespect” in direct retaliation for writing to us about the lockdown.

Summary:

• the lockdown continues and may go on until Jan 1.
• A man in RHU died due to medical neglect on December 3.
• Abuse continues, including restraints on disabled people.  
• The investigation supervisor refused to let Ledford have a private conversation with a County Sheriff who came to investigate.  
• Sgt Sansbury received a serious head injury and has retired with disability benefits.   
• The administration is building a “bubble” around the area Sansbury was working to prevent incidents occurring again.
• Guards are threatening to walk off the job, though this doesn’t seem to be an AFSCME-led action.   

Nate's first letter:

We're on lockdown, again, as the CO/Sgt "Sains-berry" (spelled phonetically) was "pushed," on Friday 8 Nov. 2019. Sains-berry is notoriously foul mouthed, yells at prisoners, follows them around to make sure their shirts are tucked in; i saw him stare at a prisoner insultingly/aggressively, with contempt, for over a minute, as I waited to see Dr. Dixon-Bauers (a psychologist). The guy's loud about how he's going to retire in some months, seems like he wants to leave w/disability benefits. EVERYONE has a story about how he insulted or harassed them.