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CSP-Sacramento: Possible 'Skinhead' Revenge Planned
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February 18, 2005 - In an article posted earlier this week on SacBee.com*, it was revealed that four 'skinheads' from the maximum-security prison commonly referred to as "New Folsom" had been transferred out of the institution. California State Prison-Sacrament has been on "intermittent lockdown" since the November shooting of prisoner Wade Arthur Shiflett, 35 by a correctional officer. Prison officials feel that due to a series of recent incidents at the institution, a possible "retaliation conspiracy" may be operating, led by 'skinhead' inmates due to the death of the white inmate just a few months ago.
"Staff safety is the primary concern in all this," said Fred Schroeder, spokesman for New Folsom. This is the third alleged inmate plot against staff in the recent weeks, following the stabbing death of an officer by an inmate at CIM and another alleged plot by inmates at Pelican Bay to murder three correctional officers.
Currently seven of the state's thirty-two prisons are on lockdown as a result of threats or actual attacks on staff by inmates, however there is no evidence to suggest any coordination to the incidents between the three institutions. Each incident is believed to be connected to three separate gangs - the 'Mexican Mafia' at Pelican Bay, the African American 'East Coast Crips' at Chino and of course the white skinheads are the latest involved at New Folsom.
CCPOA VP Chuck Alexander stated to the press, "Apparently the clients are not happy," using a term for prisoners that has been suggested to be used in management memos that have been publicly circulated. Alexander said that overcrowding situations and a $95 million budget cut in 2005 for education and vocational programs might also be playing in the unease of the prisoners. "That's the reality," he says.
Shiflett was shot and killed by an officer as the inmate was stabbing a fellow skinhead at the prison. Investigators have found no motive in this attack on the other inmate, saying that it must have been something "internal." After the incident, the prison went into lockdown and officers began searching cells and conducting routine interviews with involved inmates - that's when officials say they began learning that the 'skinheads' might be seeking revenge against officers for the shooting.
The four inmates who investigators believe to be behind the alleged threats were placed in Ad/Seg and then were shipped out to four different prisons around the state. Non-white inmates were released from lockdown and allowed to return to their regular program. This week, the 'skinheads' were in the process of being allowed out of their cells and returned to their normal program schedule as well.
More information on this situation will be posted as it becomes available.
* Source: www.sacbee.com - Registration Required
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