The first topic is violence against prisoners. In California, eight prison guards were accused for staging ?gladiator style? fights among prisoners. The guards were accused of setting up prison yard fights amoung rival prison gangs in Corcoran Prison?s High Security Unit between 1989 and 1995, and then shooting at them when brawls broke out. This resulted in guards shooting 31 unarmed prisoners, seven of them fatally. Amnesty International said, ?We are worried that investigations into this and other cased were hampered by cover-ups and the code of silence among prison officers.? This shows how there can be many more cases like this in the country that are covered up by the prison officer?s code of silence.

I thought of those dangerous guards when I began looking into the practices of Georgia?s corrections commissioner, Wayne Garner. According to a 1996 federal lawsuit, this commissioner created a tactical squad that descends on prisons without warning. They haul prisoners-some without clothes-from their

Next I will talk about how guards use other prisoners for violence. And that will bring me to the story of Eddie Dillard. In March 1993, this slight man was sent to Corcoran?s Security Housing Unit after kicking an officer. Two guard led him to a cell, opened the door, and Dillard stared up into the face of Wayne Robertson, a k a the Booty Bandit was 6 foot 2. Robertson made sexual advances toward Dillard and they had a fight. ?I?m not supposed to be in here? Dillard told the guards, who laughed and walked away. For two days the Booty Bandit raped Dillard while guards ignored Dillard?s hints that he was being attacked. Hints only, because Dillard didn?t want to be killed as a snich. Six years later Dillard is getting his day in kings county Superior Court, with four guards charged with aiding and abetting his rape.

Next I will talk about how prison guards illegally help prisoners. Since 1987 in New York city alone, 12 inmates and one guard have been wounded by gunfire in city jails. The reason is that some prisoners are turning guns on themselves in order to file multimillion dollar lawsuits against the city- for failing to provide adequate protection in jail. According to the department five prison employees have been arrested for smuggling guns into jail.

Prisoner Jane Doe recounts: ?The first time I was incarcerated, I was pregnant. Each guard is in charge of a different section and they can choose helpers that get paid. He told me he picked me because I was already pregnant and te

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