Friday, February 16, 2018

MDOC busts 2 guards in prison shakedown

MDOC issued the following press release and photos.


Two officers arrested at SMCI in first shakedown of 2018 under Operation Zero Tolerance

JACKSON – Two officers at South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Greene County have been arrested after they were caught with contraband during the first major shakedown of the year under Operation Zero Tolerance.

Jadijah Rawls, 21, a correctional officer trainee hired in November, and Diane Phillips, 64, a correctional officer since February 2014, were booked into the Greene County Jail on Tuesday under state law 47-5-193, which prohibits contraband in a correctional facility.

Officers seized a cellphone concealed on Rawls and $750 cash and $1,420 in Green dot numbers from Phillips on Tuesday morning.

“We are finding people who are trying to supplement their salaries by doing these types of illegal things,” Commissioner Pelicia E. Hall said during an appearance before the Senate Judiciary B Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon to update lawmakers about the department. She mentioned the shakedown while responding to questions.


“But we have a zero tolerance because of it,” Hall said. “The end result is I am continuing to lose staff, and that makes my understaffing problem that much greater.”

SMCI officers were surprised when the shakedown in Area II included searching them as well as the inmates at the south Mississippi prison in Leakesville. With contraband continuing to be found in facilities, other than being thrown over the perimeter fences, it is getting into the hands of inmates from staff and visitors, Hall said.


Therefore, staff as well as inmates will be searched in the second phase of Operation Zero Tolerance, she said.


“It’s important that we weed out those officers who don’t belong among our hardworking, honest employees,” Hall said. “We will make the adjustments to do the best we can to carry out our public safety mission.”

In addition to the money found on Phillips, $535 also was found hidden in a wall.

Other seized contraband items include 50 sharpened items, 27 Smart phones, 41 cellphone chargers, four flip phones, six cellphone batteries, three MP3 players, 20 sets of ear buds and Bluetooth devices, 14 packs of marijuana, 55 packages of spice, seven suspected packs of crystal methamphetamine, one suspected pack of cocaine, 11 packs of tobacco, numerous unidentified pills and assorted other items.

“One officer reportedly said during the shakedown at SMCI that she now feels safe for the first time in 16 years,” Hall said. “That is good to hear because these shakedowns are designed to do just that – to help staff and inmates be secure.”

Rawls and Phillips face termination. If convicted, each could serve from three to 15 years in prison, pay a $25,000 fine, or do both.

Phillips






Rawls



8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've been saying this for years and the former commissioner and his lower level chronies knew this too. However, it's obvious that the inmates ran the facilities under that crook. Thank God we now have someone who will go after the real source of the contraband. Hopefully it will eventually filter out to the family members who are illegally providing all this contraband to the guards. My nephew saw it first hand when he served time and the amount of cash that exchanged hands when a cell phone was brought in was just unbelievable. Another source of contraband comes in on the inmates that work outside the prisons. They may strip search them when they come back to the facility but not to the extent that can find a lot of dope they bring back into the facilities.

Anonymous said...

what are green dot numbers? is that like S&K green stamps?

Anonymous said...

I had the same question about green dot numbers. Try Google. It was actually faster than typing this comment, but I'm going with the "give a man a fish/teach a man to fish" approach here.

Anonymous said...

Maybe it would help if they hired honest people instead of crooks.
I know it is very simple but sometimes the most simple answer is the right one.
Leave the thugs and criminals behind the bars, do not give them jobs outside of the bars.

Anonymous said...

10:09

MDOC is currently taking applications. The starting salary for a correctional officer trainee is $1886.10 per month. They eagerly await your application.

Anonymous said...

Google has me in time-out. So, what the hell is a green dot?

"Supplement their salary", my ass! Epps was also 'supplementing his salary'. A crook is a crook is a crook.

Anonymous said...

The starting wage is not the problem. If it was the problem why do people ask for and take the job? Is it they are already crooks and plan to increase their criminal ways since it is so easy? Do the people hired lose their morals just as soon as they are hired? Are they forced to bring in things by the criminals who are behind bars?
It was posted they should stop hiring thugs and criminals. If the people hired were not criminals and thugs what turned these honest citizens into thugs and criminals?

Unknown said...

Green dot is cash u load to credit cards u give an inmate a 16 digit number in increments of 25, 50, 150. Whatever but it’s a number and you load it to a credit card


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