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Subject: Re: BOSTON - Prison guards harassed pedophile priest John Geoghan and wrote trumped-up disciplinary reports that landed the former clergyman in the dangerous-inmate unit where he was strangled and beaten by a fellow prisoner, a report released Tuesday found.
Date: 21 May 2006 07:11:28 -0700
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bobandcarole wrote:
> Good...next we need to send them to Gitmo...
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> BOSTON - Prison guards harassed pedophile priest John Geoghan and wrote
> trumped-up disciplinary reports that landed the former clergyman in the
> dangerous-inmate unit where he was strangled and beaten by a fellow
> prisoner, a report released Tuesday found.
>
> Investigators said a series of "overzealous and unwarranted" reports by
> a handful of guards led to the frail, 68-year-old Geoghan being
> classified as one of the state's most dangerous prisoners and sent to
> the high-security unit at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.
>
> Geoghan was killed by Joseph Druce last August as he and other inmates
> returned to their cells after lunch, authorities said.
>
> Druce, who is serving a life sentence for killing a gay man, has been
> charged with murder. Authorities say Druce followed Geoghan into his
> cell, then jammed the door shut with a book, and beat and strangled
> Geoghan.
>
> Geoghan was the priest at the center of the Boston Archdiocese's sex
> abuse scandal. At the time of his death, he was accused in civil
> lawsuits of molesting nearly 150 children over three decades and was
> serving a 9- to 10-year sentence for groping a 10-year-old boy.
>
> Geoghan's lawyers said they had frequently complained to corrections
> officials that guards were mistreating Geoghan by taunting him, filing
> bogus disciplinary reports against him and even urinating and
> defacating on his bed. They said their complaints were ignored by
> prison officials.
>
> No evidence was uncovered that guards, despite allegations some had a
> grudge against Geoghan, set him up to be killed. The report found that
> Druce worked "alone and in secret," and that there was nothing to
> indicate anyone at the prison - inmate or employee - knew of his plans
> to harm Geoghan.
>
> The report cites specific failures at Souza-Baranowski that allowed
> Geoghan to be attacked, including insufficient staffing procedures at
> his unit. But much of the criticism focuses on his time at MCI-Concord,
> the medium-security prison where he was "unduly harassed and physically
> abused," the report said.
>
> Specifically, the report cites trivial infractions written up as
> disciplinary reports against Geoghan by guards at MCI-Concord, where
> Geoghan was housed until five months before his death. The reports
> helped spur a decision by prison officials to increase Geoghan's
> "dangerousness" classification and transfer him to the maximum-security
> prison.
>
> The investigation found that the disciplinary reports "were more the
> result of personal animus against (Geoghan) than serious infractions
> that required formal findings."
>
> The results of the investigation, conducted by a three-member
> commission, will be forwarded to prosecutors.
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