Perimeter guards are off duty while two inmates

Harris Marley

Global Courant 2023-05-10 15:18:26

A Philadelphia prison where two inmates escaped Sunday night had no guards watching only their housing unit at the time of the escape, nor any armed perimeter guards on duty when the inmates cut through the prison’s outer fence, according to a correctional prison. civil servants union official.

The two men, one of whom is facing charges that he killed four people in three separate shootings, are still missing Tuesday night. They escaped nearly 19 hours before officials discovered they were missing.

Ameen Hurst, 18, and Nasir Grant, 24, escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

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Robinson said that on the night Hurst and Grant escaped, one officer was assigned to guard multiple units. He said this is usually due to other officers failing to report to work or the prison reaching critically low staffing levels.

“I’ve been talking about the personnel and safety issues for years and seemingly ignored. I said how something is going to happen, and now something has happened, so are you listening now?” Robinson said. “Of course I’m not saying the commissioner took a key and released it, but vital posts have been cut that could have prevented this.”

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