Looking back, in hindsight, that matter should've been referred sooner, should've been referred earlier.
It was a part of a letter. It wasn't an original copy. It was a challenge to establish who wrote it, who wrote it to whom and why, that type of thing.
He was taken into custody because we wanted to put him on an electronic monitoring device.
Warden Morgan does take responsibility for that. She has acknowledged that and she's working with us as we do our own review of how things were handled there.
We do not believe the staff- inmate ratio changes can be interpreted to mean our prisons are less safe. Additional medium security and minimum-security capacity, advances in building design, technology - all of these factors come into play with regard to the ratio numbers.
They didn't believe they had enough information at that time and in weeks that followed to make a referral to law enforcement.
This is a very serious matter. We have zero tolerance for this and for that type of behavior.
