Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Failure to Act!



In an article published on January 12, 2007, on the blog at http://cimccpoa.blogspot.com there is a letter by Gary Clark, the President of the Chino Chapter of CCPOA, in which it was reported that a, potentially disastrous, policy was commenced on December 21, 2006, at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

It has come to my attention that the Associate Warden who implemented this formula for disaster is Mike Collier and the Warden of the California Institution for Men who is mentioned in the article is Mike Poulos.

There are only two more players in this comedy of errors who are important in this dark opera. They are the Chief Deputy Wardens and, as such, they serve as intermediaries between the Warden and the Associate Wardens. By name they are 1) Aref Fakhoury and 2) Richard Alvarado (Acting).

Now that it has been established that Associate Warden Collier has *three supervisors* who could either order him to rescind his questionable policy or rescind it themselves, the question persists, "Why haven't any of *these three* taken any action?" The dismantling of the Mini-Yards remains, as if these managers are awaiting another Correctional Officer's death or a major riot before they correct this mistake in judgment.

If you are a Correctional Officer reading this blog and you are working at the MSF yard of CIM you should have your life insurance policy paid up and in force.

Lorraine Bradley