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Paul E Ester

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3. Corrections officials should be upset about what a video shows, not who released it.

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 02:12 PM

Mar 2013

If Maine corrections officials are embarrassed, they have good reason.

An in-house video that showed a supervisor at the Windham prison inappropriately using pepper spray on a restrained inmate leaving him in distress for 20 minutes was shocking when it was revealed in a story in the Maine Sunday Telegram.

The officer, Capt. Shawn Welch, was fired by his supervisors after they viewed the video, but the punishment was reduced to a 30-day suspension by Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

Now that the public has seen the video, this would be good time for the department to explain what steps have been taken to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. Instead, they are taking steps to make sure that no explosive video like this ever reaches the public again.

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/prison-leak-probe-looks-for-the-wrong-problem_2013-03-22.html

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Maine officials seeking pepper-spray video leak [View all] Paul E Ester Mar 2013 OP

Looks like torture to me. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #1

Next moterfuvcking headline I read about this better say: tabasco Mar 2013 #2

Corrections officials should be upset about what a video shows, not who released it. Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #3

Not "OMG that's horrible," but "Who's the snitch?" dogknob Mar 2013 #4

bump..nt Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #5

Shades of 1984... Poll_Blind Mar 2013 #6

This was my first thought. Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #8

Prison captain fired, but later reinstated, after pepper spraying inmate Poll_Blind Mar 2013 #7

On the back wall is the Great Seal of the State of Maine Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #9