Attempted murder of a civilian cook by a California Institution for Men inmate

I agree. He left her face scarred by stabbing and tried to rape her.

I worked at a juvinile facility in norwalk california. Juveiles were sent to us for sentensing to their long term facility. Some employees were not as aware or valeginant as they should be. I noticed a social worker keeping a juveile longer then the 6 weeks required to move juveniles to their institution to serve their time. Things got even worse as she would have this juvenile in her office when her business was over with him. Then I noticed paper was being placed over the window of her office, she said it was for privacy??? I noticed love letters to this juvenile when I did room inspections. I took his letters and hers and compared the hand writings, BINGO, I reported her for being in a romantic relationship with a 16 year old delinquent juvenile.

My senior youth counselor had a habit of taking several juveiles to the dining hall when he was doing business. While in the dining hall one day he was distracted and 10 knives where stolen and brought back to the cottage. I had befriended a juvenile who was from Arazonia, bought him a carton of cigarettes because the other juveniles treated him poorly, He walked pasted me and said there are ten knives on the cottage. I called the senior counselor and told him what was said to me. He told me that he had taken several juvenies and no way did any theft was taken at the chow hall.

Night was falling and I had a decision to make, I called head of security and told him the problem, he did noting and dropped the problem into my lap. I could initiate a lock down and do a room to room search. Instead I decided to walk down each wing of the unit and tell the juveniles that I know that 10 knives were taken from the dining hall, that I was going to turn of the hall lights and I was going to wait five minutes and I wanted to see 10 knives in the hall, or I would have a room to room search. Nine knives were recoverd.

A juvenile was bullyig other juveniles in the day room. A white counelor saw the incident and decided to confront the youth. He sent the juvenile to his room. Instead of letting the juvenile go to his room as instructed he decided to put hands on the youth by pushing him from behind. He did this three times to the juvenile. I saw what was coming and walked to the office door as the youth entered the hall on the way to his room. The counselor pushed the juvenile agan and the juenile turned and attacked the staff. I rushed from the office, grabbed the juvenile from behind and took him to the floor. Instead of helping me restrain the juvenile the counselor wide eyed in fear got up ran through the office past the phone and panic button, down the hall and out the door leveing me with 99 jueniles in the dayroom unsupervied and me wrestling on the floor with one pissed off juvenile who had turned his anger and aggression towards me. This kid was strong, from lifting weights in the yard, I had my hands full. I was able to get him in a rear naked choke and cranked down on him when he continued to struggle. I told him I would choke his ass out in front of all his peers if he didn’t get his act together, that I was the BIG dog the yard and I would make an example of him in front of all the juveniles looking on, then I cranked down on his neck to get his attention. He came to his senses and I let him go to his room. All the juveniles clapped and said that Humphries was the BIG dog in the yard. I informed the incident to the senior youth counselor and he chastised me as to what I should have done not what the WHITE counselor should had not done. I told him that I went to protect my co worker as I saw that he had put himself in harms way. That the juvenile was about to attack the couselor in anger an that the two of us could have easily restrined the youth if we worked as a team. We had been taught how to restrain with minual harm to the jueniles in our charge.

The last incident that occurrred before I was drummed out of the YA was when I were attacked by 25 juveniles with a metal rod broken off the bunk bed in one juveniles room. We had 100 juveniles on our cottage with two couselors. To distribute the jueniles during dayroom 25 were allowed to be in the b wing shower listening to music. The door to that shower and restrooms was secured from the day room and to our office. The plan was that one juvenile would cause a problem where he would be sent to his room. The room seleceted was WAY down the b wing hall!!!!! B wing hall’s where the 25 juveniles were listening to their music was in the B wing shower.
I’m out in the dayroom supervising 75 juveniles when my coworker rings the dayroom bell to get my attention. I go to the office and he tells me that a juvenile we had sent to his room was makeing a loud racket. I went down the hall to investigte. I closed the office door, my co worker is secure but I’m locked out with 25 juveiles between me and safety.

I go down to the end of the hall to investigte, suddenly I detect movement in the hall way behind me, coming down the hall towards me is a black youth who is on my case load who is in for murder!!! He instructs me to let the juvenile out of his room, I’m thnking HELL NO!!! Two againt one is not a fair fight. He rises the pipe to strike me, I distract him by saying, “what do you want”? He said we want to get out of here! I said cool, lets go back to the office. When I looked back towards the office I see several juveniles in the office!!! OH SHIT the cottage has been overtaken. I slid around him keeping him at a distance and walked back up the hall with him following. When we got near the offie he told me to stop and told me to unlock a store room and go inside! I said no and continued to walk to the office. When I reach the office a juveile who we had just received that day picked up the metal office chair to strike me with. I told him to put down the chair and he did! I told them to lock me in the office toilet!!! ( get something solid between me and them) I had thought about pressing the panic button on the counter in the office but didn’t want to antigaize them and have them take it out on me.

When I was walking back towards the office I see several juveniles holding the office toilet door, I’m thinking that my coworker was hurt and that they had threw him in the office toilet. I told them to lock me in the toilet and pushed the three juveniles who were holding the door. They backed off and I opened the door, my co-worker tried to come out with a bat and I pushed him back inside saying theres to many of them. When I hired in on that cottage the senior counselor told me that a certain circuit breaker in the restroom would short circuit the alarm button on the office counter and the alarm would sound in the security office. I also turned out all the lights so that it would take time for them to do anything in the dark. I opened the panel and flipped the switch. I counted to 10 and opened the door I see a juvenile running across the dayroom with a ladder, then all the doors opened the calvery had arrived. All juveniles were prevented from escaping and no one was hurt. I tried to get some ligency for the juvenile with the pipe because if he had attacked me down the hall with that pipe they all could have gotten out into the community which was on the other side of the fence.

Other incidents had occurred at that faclity. I saved a juvenile who had tried to hang himself. We had to make hal checks every hour. I walked down the hall looking into every room. I went past this oe room and the juvenile was at his window observing me. I did y rounds and whle i the office I thought, that’s unsual why is he up watching me. I doubled back to his room and saw the juvenile attempting sucide. He was almost gone! I was able to hold him up while pulling the tee shirt so that he could breathe and not cut off the bood to his brain. I saved his life.

Another incident occured when our institution was over crowded I was told by my senior youth counselor to move a certain juvenile to another cottage. When I told the juveile about the move he told me there was a rival gang member there and he was afraid. I told the enior and suggested he choose another juveile. He refused and I had to wrap this kid in a blanket and move him hollering and kicking to the other cottage. I was working a over time shift and when I returned to work tht morning I learned that the juvenile had hung himself.

I was working a med psyc cottage, we had a juvenile who on the day that he murdered a woman his mother did house keeping for he would attempt suicide. He had attempted suicide by hanging and was placed in a suicide room next to the office with a camera. The date of the murder was coming up, we had a group meeting an everyone was in agreement to put this juvenile in a regular room, except me. My arguemfent was, why put this kid in a regular room prior to the night of his last suicide attempt. Leave him on suicide watch and after tonighet we won’t have to worry for the next 365 days. These juveniles were allowwed to shave. I had made a shaving rack with the room # of each juvenile. A juveile used his razor, returns it and razor is placed back in rack. The counelor was to check the razor for the blade and place it back in the rack. Yeah, you guessed it. The juvenile was placed in a room. The last time his suicide attempt was discovered because when he cut his wrist blood squirted all over the place and he was detected! He wrapped a towel around his arm placed his arm in a waste basket covered up and did the deed. I was on a turn around shift, when I woke all the juveiles up that morning he was the only one that didn’t get up! When I pounded on his door, no movement. I opene the door to yell out to him and I could smell deth. I secured the door, sent my cle up rew bck to their rooms nd clled security. I was intferrigted like I was the person who was on shift when the juvenile killed himself. The body was stiff which means that he had died several hours ago.
The lst incident before I was pressured out was, I had bought a table game named the game of life. I modified it to use as a tool when in counseling with my juvenile assigned to me. I would play this game with the juveniles after I had modififed it and named it thug life. You had thrree routes to hoose from before starting the game. The thug route, colege route and normal guy route. The thug route gve you an opportunity to make lots of money but the pit fall was that you could go to jail, loose all your money and even deth. The coleg rout you didn’t makke much money until you were ucky enough to land on college, the last was the every day drinding it out, never making it big but you survived the game. The game come up missing and I later lferned that the Youth Authorty was using my game, some one stole my game and presented it to the youth authority as their idea. I don’t know if they made money off iet o r what I believe a social worker was told about the gme and stole and prresented it to the youth authority as their idea.
Shortly after that I was drumed out of the Youth Authority. I took a private ective course moved to texas and continued working as a private detective unti I retirred at 70.