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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

As The Jail Turns

It took the great 3D over a year to finally do something about replacing his retired Chief of Security. During said time, security at WCDC pretty well collapsed under an administration which clearly has no idea how to deal even-handedly with its
employees. The perfect example of this is a comparison of two events which happened within the last two or three months. First we had Mr. L, who made certain statements of seriously violent intent directed at total strangers not incarcerated within WCDC and drew the attention of 3D and Law Enforcement. Mr. L's case was
handled very quietly by 3D, and after completing certain requirements laid out by 3D, Mr. L will be permitted to return to work. Ms. G, on the other hand, was accused of suspicion of illegal actions and was publically arrested in the officer's lunch
room by police officers escorted personally by 3D, cuffed, her badge removed and herself removed from the building by force. So much for even handed treatment. The public arrest of Ms. G upset officers and everyone else who either witnessed it or heard about it. Why the difference in treatment? Is one more guilty than the
other? Was Mr. L innocent until proven guilty and Ms. G guilty until proven innocent?

When tensions at WCDC were almost to the breaking point, and seasoned officers were leaving almost as quickly as new hirees, a date was announced for The Interview. Only six applicants were notified and scheduled. Of those six, two were from Outside. The rest were from WCDC. Miraculously, said interviews took place on
time, a first for the current administration, and it was known by almost everyone working within those hallowed white stone walls that the decision was made and accepted that very day. Was it announced so that things could return to normal and healing could begin? Hell no. 3D is so out of touch with the atmosphere around
him that he withheld the decision for another week and several days! Tensions increased far beyond any breaking points and several of those within WCDC who were included in the interview process behaved like naughty children, causing even more problems for those attempting to put in a decent day's work.

By the time the announcement was finally made, everyone felt reasonably certain that the Chosen One would be Major Mopy, the worst possible choice. After all, had 3D not promised to give him Security Chief? The Jail population was prepared for this, and so was Mopy. What a shock to learn that, not only was Mopy not the Chosen One, but he had not even placed in the top three finalists! No, the choice turned out to be a dark horse, an outsider. Was there collusion? If so, it can never be proven. What there is, as it turns out, is total chaos. That chaos continues to this very
moment. There are reports and witness accounts of Major Mopy locking himself away in his office and ignoring his job, the phone and everything else. Once that tantrum was over, there now seems to be a battle ongoing between the two Majors. Mopy sulks about his office, emerging only long enough to countermand orders given
by his fellow Major, and THAT Major is running about the hallways yanking on his collar insignia while shouting "I AM THE MIGHTY MUGWUMP!" at everyone he encounters! Orders are given, countermanded, countermanded, and countermanded again, until no one knows what to do! All the little officers are scrambling about,
trying their best to do what they're told and to remain safe while dealing with 900+ inmates AND two insane, childish Majors who are being permitted to continue this ridiculous behavior.

Where is the leadership? Where is the concern for officer and inmate safety? Anyone can easily predict the train wreck waiting to happen, yet no one is doing anything to stop it. Is this what 3D gets paid the Big Bucks for, to create chaos and in-fighting day after day after day? Is this what the 7 Dwarves expect of the
Warden, or Director of WCDC? If so, I want my votes back!

13 comments:

  1. dAM# A 650 BED FACILITY GREW TO 900 OVER NIGHT WITHOUT AN INCREASE IN STAFF. WHOEVER IS GIVING THIS INFO TO THE BLOG IS MISINFORMED ON MANY POINTS. MISTER L WAS A VICTIM OF RUMOR AND MISINFORMATION. HE WAS MISDIAGNOSIED AND FORCED TO UNDERGO TREATMENT. HE WAS RETURNED WITH NO PROBLEM.

    AS FAR AS MISS G SHE WAS GIVEN EVERY CHANCE TO RIGHT A WRONG AND SHE CHOSE TO IGNORE THE LAW. SHE WILL BE GIVEN HER DAY IN COURT AND THE FINAL DECISION WILL BE MADE THEN AS TO HER FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

    AS FAR AS THE TWO MAJORS IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THEY ARE DISAPPOINTED THAT THEY WERE NOT CHOSEN. THEY HAVE ROSE ABOVE AND ARE DOING THEIR JOBS AS EXPECTED.

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  2. It's too bad Rusty Mulner had to offer him the director job on the very night 3D was preparing to pack up and leave the area. Someday, someone in authority will realize just what a disaster he is. I was hoping Politt would realize it but I guess he is a stupid as the rest.

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  3. His new hire for the Security Chief job will be his downfall.An x assist.Warden of ECI and now working with Howard Cty Jail as a Capt.However he lives in Salis.The Warden of the Howard Jail is friends with the 3D of Wico Cty.Makes one think of under table dealings.

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  4. "His new hire for the Security Chief job will be his downfall.An x assist.Warden of ECI and now working with Howard Cty Jail as a Capt.However he lives in Salis.The Warden of the Howard Jail is friends with the 3D of Wico Cty.Makes one think of under table dealings.

    3:59 PM"

    Do tell!!! The way I hear it the DIRECTOR of Howard County Jail has or is about to leave and take a position with another company in the area of recruitment. The particular Capt. you are speaking of is a fair and just man and will not tolerate crap from his officers and will stand up for what is right on either side of the bars.

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  5. Anonymous 8:11 AM,

    Why are you screaming! We can read lower case you know! LOL Is this your way of venting your frustration of what's going on over to the WCDC! LOL So is the reason your sreaming because the information on the blog is true! LOL if the blog is not true, then mrelax stop screaming....LOL

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  6. I heard Mr.Politt is a very honest person, I thought a lot was going to change also, being that Salisbury had made a change for the better, but as it seems like Anonymous 2:25 PM is telling it how it is. Once again history is repeating itself. One thing I can say is, if this town was to start voting for outsiders, a lot of what goes on with the Bubba Brother Hood would stop, but Salisbury really would have to want it bad.. Stop the bad cycle. I still trust in Mr. Politts honesty and that he has a plan.

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  7. Why, bless your little heart, anon dAM#! Do you have to shout, or don't you know where your CAPS key is? Seems to me the point being made by the original commentary is that there IS NO CONSISTENCY in the treatment of people by good ol' 3D. Sorry you missed the point. Can you also shout about how mature these two majors are in their "understandable disappointment"? And have you seen the same misbehavior from the two captains who also interviewed and were not chosen? I think not. Wake up, anon dAM#. Stop brown nosing for a promotion and remove your rose colored glasses. You cannot possibly believe that things are good at WCDC with inmates getting cell phones and recharging batteries right under 3Ds nose!

    As far as Miss G is concerned, the point is that in THIS country, criminals are still INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty, yet she was treated as someone who'd already been sentenced. In fact, my sources have assured me that the woman was set up to be a spectacle! Eye-witnesses say she was SITTING in the lunch room, which officers never have the time to do, and they tell me that people were in there who normally don't use that room at all. So, there was a guaranteed audience. It's my understanding that the case against her is incredibly weak to begin with, which means there'll be even MORE law suits in 3D's future, as if that's any kind of shock to those who know how slip-shod he is when firing or punishing employees.

    Anon 2:25, don't worry about 3D for much longer. According to most of my sources, and they've been scrambling to learn whatever they can so they won't be caught short when he takes charge of his position, with the resume the new Security Chief brings, he'll have 3D's job in no time. With so many of his staff working so hard to assassinate him career wise, including (permit me to borrow here) Mopy and Mugwump, not to forget a certain harden nosed snake in the grass, 3D takes one step too far and has finally hired a man who apparently is more intelligent, more experienced and has a strong incling of what security REALLY is. I'm content to sit back and watch the final sinking of the USS Devenyns . . . straight to the briny bottom.

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  8. To anonymous 8:11

    A poor soul crying alone in the wilderness. Your voice tolls out across a dark and depthless valley of despair, ringing, \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"ALL IS WELL! ALL IS WELL!\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Do you anticipate the flocking of those shadow-locked souls to your feet? Do you truly believe that, merely because you are shouting like the Mighty Mugwump, that all those fortunate enough to hear your tolling words will believe and be uplifted?

    Your information pertaining to Mr. L is partly incorrect. While he has indeed been returned and rehired in all likelihood, he was definitely not the victim of rumor.

    In regard to Ms. G, you appear to state that everyone in this country should be treated guilty until proven innocent, and the best way to prove innocence is through actively righting whatever wrong a person is accused of. Have we suddenly shifted governments to the old communism regimes of elsewhere? It would appear that your notion of Libety and Justice for All is somewhat askew.

    And finally, your assertion that Mopy and The Mighty Mugwump are doing their jobs as expected; are you saying that each one countermanding the orders of the other is standard operation procedure at WCDC? If so, then things are in a far sadder state than anyone could ever have imagined.

    Thank you for your response, anonymous 8:11. You have opened all our eyes in far more ways than you could ever have imagined.

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  9. JOE,I SENT YOU SOME INFO ABOUT THE TRUTH CONCERNING WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AT THE DETENTION CENTER .WILL YOU POST IT?

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  10. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WICOMICO COUNTY DETENTION CENTER(WCDC).THE RECENT UPROAR ABOUT THE NEW CHIEF OF SECURITY CENTERS AROUND THE FOLLOWING -FACTS.FIRST OF ALL THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS TO BECOME THE NEW CHIEF OF SECURITY ARE UPSET ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE SELECTION PROCESS WAS UNFAIRLY COORDINATED BY DIRECTOR DEVENYNS. DEVENYNS PROMISED MAJOR IN WRITING THAT HE WOULD BE THE NEW SECURITY CHIEF AND HE ALSO STATED AT THE FORMER SECURITY CHIEFS RETIREMENT LUNCHEON THAT ONE OF HIS TWO MAJORS MOORE OR ELLIOTT WOULD FILL COL.YOUNG'S SHOES.SOUNDS LIKE A PROMISE TO ME.THEN DEVENYNS TELLS MR.HARDEN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATOR THAT HE WANTS HIM TO TAKE THE CHIEFS POSITION.I AM TOLD BY A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE THAT HARDEN WAS TOLD BY DEVENYNS TO SIMPLY PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS AND THAT HE COULD GUARANTEE HARDEN WOULD BE CHOSEN BY 100%.SOUNDS LIKE A SCAM TO ME.HARDEN WHO IF YOU DON'T KNOW HIM,IS A RETIRED CAPTAIN,THAT'S RIGHT- (CAPTAIN )FROM THE MARYLAND STATE POLICE,HE RETIRED AS A DIVISION COMMANDER IN GOOD STANDING. SUCH A MAN WOULD NOT LIE ABOUT THIS SITUATION IF HE WERE EVER OFFICIALLY APPROACHED ABOUT IT.IT'S OBVIOUS THAT HARDEN DECLINED TO BE A PART OF ANY SUCH SCHEME TO BE SELECTED AS THE NEW CHIEF OF SECURITY.I AM ALSO TOLD THAT HARDEN WAS GIVEN INFORMATION FROM AN OUTSIDE SOURCE REGARDING ALLEGATIONS OF DEVENYNS SLEEPING WITH SOME OF HIS EMPLOYEES AND THAT HARDEN INFORMED MR.RICK POLLITT,THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ABOUT THESE ALLEGATIONS. POLLITT INSTRUCTED HARDEN TO CONTINUE WITH HIS INTERNAL INVESTIGATION INVOLVING DEVENYNS. I AM TOLD THAT HARDEN CONTACTED OTHER UNNAMED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND SUBSEQUENTLY DISCOVERED THAT DEVENYNS DID SLEEP WITH CERTAIN EMPLOYEE/S AND THAT MOST ARE AFRAID TO COME FORWARD. NEXT I AM TOLD THAT THIS CASE BECAME SO INVOLVED THAT THE OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RECOMMENDED THAT IT BE FORWARDED TO THE MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE BECAUSE OF IMPLICATIONS OF INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT,MONEY ISSUES AND POSSIBLE MALPHEASANCE BY DEVENYNS. I AM ALSO TOLD THAT THE FINAL REPORTS WERE FORWARDED TO MR.POLLITT MONTHS AGO AND WERE NEVER FORWARDED TO THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.BOY I BET MR.HARDEN WAS IN A UNIQUE SITUATION.HERE AGAIN I BET YOU IF HE WERE EVER REQUESTED TO OFFICIALLY DISCUSS THIS INFORMATION,HE SURELY WOULD.WHY WASN'T THIS INVESTIGATION CONTINUED? MORE TO COME.

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  11. Joe, I just read the truth about the wcdc.you didn't think that that info should have went on your main post site?

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  12. Anonymous 6:42, don't be upset by the rantings of Anonymous 11:52. This is so very clearly a man who is so angry that he's flailing without a definite target to hit. If he had anything solid, any proof to his allegations, we'd be seeing another highly embarrassing arrest at WDCD. There has been no arrest. And by hurling all of his screamed ranting into the public blog, isn't he warning 3D of what ammunition he has? What sane person would so such a thing IF these were prosecutable events?

    There are also some fallacies within all that ranting and raving. My sources, and this little ghost has many in many different sections, say that the serpentine Mr. Harden wanted that Chief of Security post so badly that he even suggested to 3D that he just be "given" the position! So much for him turning it down! He spent countless hours "locked away" in his office, door closed, creating plan after plan pertaining to his vision of the facility after he acquired the position. And much of the time, the viral Ms. Shockley was with him behind that closed door, which one must admit doesn't look or sound all that good. One could actually say that the snake and the virus "crawled into bed" to form an alliance. I'm not sure one should take that quite literally.

    Let's take a look at Mr. Harden then as a Chief of Security for WCDC. To begin with, he lacks the requirements as listed in the advertisement for that position. Also, he was a police officer, and his training and experience lies in the apprehension of criminals, NOT in the security of inmates. These are very different skills and cannot cross over. Had 3D made the mistake of "giving" Harden the position he so desperately wanted, it would have been a train wreck in the making.

    As for all the infidelities, these are widely known and, so far as this ghost knows, cannot be upheld as a reason for termination. It's just another example of an angry man swinging blindly.

    Anon 11:52 seems highly impressed that Mr. Harden WAS a captain with the State Police. It leads one to believe that these rantings belong to the subject here. Has Mr. Harden found his way onto the Blog? Anyway, to address this point, the MSP sources tell this little ghost that Mr. Harden achieved his rank through . . . shall we say doing nice things for his superiors? That's the polite way to put it. Is there evidence of this? Well, he certainly lived in 3D's pocket until the Security Chief position went to someone else. Now he's nowhere to be found when 3D's in the building.

    Did you notice how many times Anon11:52 said "I'm told"? If this guy gained such copious amounts of information pertaining to ongoing investigations from Mr. Harden, then WCDC needs to get rid of their internal investigator because he's a bucket-mouth! No. Joe did very well in keeping Anon 11:52 here, because it is indeed another chapter in As The Jail Turns, and it would appear we have a second villain stepping out into the spotlight.

    Perhaps Joe might consider making As The Jail Turns a special section that pops up each day, so we can all be entertained by the ongoing saga! Our own personal soap opera!

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  13. Harden why are you useing CAPs and we all no that the was your post.

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