Alaska State Troopers on Thursday arrested a corrections officer at Spring Creek Correctional Center for bringing 48.7 grams of suspected methamphetamine and 87 Buprenorphine strips to an inmate in the facility. Both are controlled substances.
Steven Manuel, 44, a Seward resident, was arrested without incident and remanded to the Seward Jail on charges of promoting contraband in the first degree, misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree, and in the fourth degree.
According to the Troopers’ dispatch report, more charges may be filed.
Imagine going to work one day. And then staying for about ten years . . . .
The only trouble is the State will have to pay to keep his sorry a** someplace where he won’t be recognized.
Maybe we could find a way of getting the convict and his family to pay for the ‘upkeep’?
You would agree in writing to be responsible for offenses and debts of your entire family as well. Right?
Do the crime? Then pay for it. With cash if necessary.
Why is that trouble?
Regardless of the cost, criminals need their just punishment.
Or should we let him go – like a good little bureaucrat?
Not too big a deal, just trade him to another state for one of their admin-seg freaks and tell him to keep his mouth shut.
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Hahahaha! I enjoy . Conservatives banter and jokes.
“At DEA, our goal is simple: we want medication for opioid use disorder to be readily and safely available to anyone in the country who needs it. DEA applauds the repeal of the DATA Waiver and all it will do to expand access to buprenorphine for those who need it.”-Anne Milgram, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
“The MAT Act is all about increasing access and saving lives. Enacting this legislation, which eliminates the X-waiver, is a positive step forward in supporting the many Americans struggling with opioid addiction and substance abuse,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Continue to lessen the ‘absolute’ requirements for a given ‘secure’ position within law enforcement, or of any ‘secure’ position within any LEO or first responder position, and more of this shall become commonplace.
Lower the requirements, thus lower the quality of the personnel hired.
Stupid. So stupid.
A corrections office is gonna be very, very popular behind bars.
He’s probably gonna get to live out the Ned Beaty scene from Deliverance a bunch of times. If he’s lucky. There’s much worse in prisons.
I escorted more than a few COs out of the facilities. We’d learned the hard way that you couldn’t trust either the DAs or the cops to get it right, so we wanted to bring administrative charges against them so we could get them off our payroll and we usually did that with what we styled “The German Choice” or you do it or we will and we handed them a resignation memo to sign. As soon as they signed we told them we were the least of their problems and made the criminal complaint to the waiting officer.
We had a few horror stories where DAs dropped the charges while we’d had them on suspension pending investigation. The SOBs were sitting in Mexico sending us “Wish you were here” cards because they knew we had to keep paying them and couldn’t get them actually fired. We had one in Seward that lived off that for nearly three years until we could finally get rid of him. As I said, we got good at it and stopped giving convicts paid vacations. Don’t know how good the State is at it these days.
Has anyone tried to challenge that scam in court?
What scam? Explain.
The ones who went to Mexico while still being paid/investigated.
If it’s not a scam, it seems the next closest thing.
Talk to the Courts; if it was a scam, it was their scam. We finally worked around it.
On the contrary. If that officer was providing contraband to the prisoners he will be viewed as an acceptable member of that subculture. They trust him. He will do just fine.
I wonder how long this officer has worked for DOC? Standards have been reduced to fill vacancies so we’re getting lower quality officers. Art, does five and out have an influence here?
Not really; we’ve always had five and out since PERS began in ’61. Legal marijuana probably has more to do with it than anything else, plus general lawlessness. The two most valuable skills in Alaska are peeing in a bottle and passing a background check and not many can do it.
That’s very true and with this statement you would have to agree with the need to retain quality officers.
If only they still had you Art, right?
If you worked for the State, I’d come out of retirement just to fire you.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read on here in a long time.
Wow, there’s some abuse of power. How much would this proposed act of vengeance cost the state?
This person was probably a union member. Unions are currently protected under the “free assembly” clause in the First Amendment. The Alaska Republican party should pass a law banning union membership, which will be appealed, but wipl eventually lead to the United States Supreme Court (6-3 conservative) overturning the 1st, allowing the establishment of a state religion and banning other religions, sanctioning of mainstream media (including arresting journalists who report things conservatives don’t like), and banning the Democrat party, and permitting the forcible removal of their officials, and jailing their party leaders, and charging registered Democrrats with terrorism.
Not all unions are evil as you have been led to believe. Most of the time its not about money, its about working conditions and protection from vengeful acts that Mr Chance more than likely participated in. I suffered far more abuse in private industry than I have in the employ of the state being union represented.
He was making bank.
His fmr c.o’s probably placed him in solitary confinement for his protection from the prison population. They do
do actions like that when unusual arrests were made.
It’s pretty much SOP to place them in Administrative Segregation, the polite term for solitary, when a CO is incarcerated. Then when/if they’re sentenced, you have to find someplace to put them where hopefully nobody knows them.
A buddy of mine who was a career cop down south said the convicts always find out when they have a bad cop among them.
Sooner or later, prison justice is always served.
They should give this guy a choice: Life in prison, or eat ALL the drugs, all at once.
Worked with convicts at San Quentin Prison years ago. Within a week the convicts knew my address and what bedroom my kids slept in. I was told I was to bring in packages for them. Needless to say, I didn’t stay long. Very easy to get swept up into their world. If the convicts have any leverage on you they will use it.
Better start applying more lip balm and lotion.
The article doesn’t say if the charges are felonies or some level of misdemeanor. If a first time offense, there is a good chance of no prison time. Hefty fine, no job, community service, etc.
No it’s a felony. All contraband is smuggled in through guards. The people with the wands and the pat down people are on the take to look the other way. Drones have become an issue that allow contraband to be dropped in over the wire.
Prone to ignorant proclamations much, Mr. Forkner?
To state, “All contraband is smuggled in through guards”, is exactly true as saying, “all members of the public are entitled, self-righteous wankers”. As a rule, any sentence that contains the word, “all”, is going to be fanciful, at best.
Drugs and other contraband are smuggled into facilities via a variety of routes and if I were pressed to name the main routes I would have to suggest mules, visitors, mail, and airmail. And, yes, occasionally staff.
Now, you are clearly a genius and far be it for me to miss an opportunity to avail myself of wisdom far above and beyond my own so perhaps you would share with me your ideas for stopping contraband?
Let’s start with mules. The legal system has made it such that individuals can move themselves in and out of prisons almost at will via the various means available to them: bail, probation, PED, furloughs, halfway houses, etc. Some swallow while others pack and the stuff is pretty much invisible to the ‘scanners’ we have.
I’m sure you understand what, ‘swallow or pack’, means. What, exactly, do you propose to counter?
Or, perhaps you have some idea how to intercept the sorts of drugs that are physically, very, very small thus concealable pretty much anywhere and in anything? That sort tends to come in through visiting, through intake and, occasionally through the mail, including attorney mail which we are forbidden from more than a cursory glance at?
I, and the entirety of D.O.C., eagerly await your council and recommendations.
Not true. Contraband comes in from all kinds of sources. Visitors, religious volunteers, attorneys, medical staff and kitchen staff. A lot comes in shipments of supplies, food, laundry supplies, bedding, institutional clothing, etc. An inmate has a friend or relative on the outside who gets a job at a company that supplies the prison with some commodity and they communicate on which container of lettuce or box of towels the drugs or knife or whatever is hidden. There’s not enough staff in any prison to examine every food container or roll of toilet paper for contraband.
Scotch whiskey with the garbage truck.
I had a friend who spent 18 months at spring creek for refusing alcohol treatment. He said there were more access to drugs in prison than on the street. He was shocked at how many inmates were never without whatever drug they desired. Daily drug use was as common as meals. It was a real eye opener for him as he was certain he wouldnt make it out alive for not participating in the “drug scam”.
So much for going to prison to be rehabilitated. If you werent involved with drugs before it is more likely to either be a user or supplier before leaving Spring Creek. It is much worse than anyone can imagine.
Nothing new really. Contraband has always been prevalent in prisons. Does anyone really believe its not supplied by the employees? Its a captive market for a lucrative cash supplement gig. Security measures for any outsider entering a prison should be implemented to the same extent on all employees as well.
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