“Women do not feel safe, even male staff do not feel safe,” an anonymous staffer said.
Documentation from CDCR reveals that on January 20, 2024, inmate Robert Lawrence Ransom Jr., a convicted killer from Los Angeles, was able to enter a control booth at the Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown.
Staffers say Ransom physically and sexually assaulted a female correctional officer.
“He did try to impersonate another staff member, and once an inmate can gain access to a control booth, they’re pretty much in control of the building themselves,” a staffer said. “If he was able to overpower her and take her weapon at that point, she’s a hostage, and she’s not able to communicate.”
The inmate was reportedly inside the control booth from 9:30 p.m. Saturday until 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
A staffer explains that people on the ground “don’t have visual, they can’t see what’s occurring in the control booth because its elevated, so it’s a dangerous position.”
Staff members say they wouldn’t be speaking out if this was an isolated incident.
“There’s no repercussions anymore for things that are occurring inside the department. Inmates batter staff and attack staff. The consequences are changing,” a staffer said.
Hector Bravo Ferrel, a former Correctional Lieutenant, says, “You couldn’t pay me enough money to stick around, the train wreck that is happening and that’s going to happen.”
After 16 years as a Lieutenant with the CDCR, Hector Bravo Ferrel quit.
He says he was tired of “The daily assaults on staff members, battery on staff members, attempted murder on staff members.”
Ferrel and staffers who called FOX 11 say the new changes in the California prison system are the problem. They say the new California Model is a softer rehabilitative model similar to Norway’s incarceration system, where inmates have a lot of freedom.
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thetoughestbeat
The California Govenor does not care about crime victims or law enforcement. The horrible governor definitely has proven he does not care about correctional officers. This “California Model” is designed to coddle felons, to make them feel happy and give them more free stuff. Newsom want to ensure child rapists and murderers have more freedom and have a good time in prison, even at the expense of simple safety procedures. We need to remember what prison is for and look out for public safety, even if the governor does not care about it.
I’m with you 100 percent
This system is the worst idea I’ve ever heard of and seen. As everyone is saying it’s a train wreck! It’s over for me after 31yrs in July.
Newsome and his whole family should be forced to spend 6 months in separate prisons and get a perspective of what real life is like on the inside and see if their attitudes change
How did this POS make entry into the both?