My problem with the Thomson CC being used as a fed joint is two fold. No I dont want the terrorist on our soil for all of the above reasons. But the main reason is this. Some of you know I was promoted to Lieutenant in the Illinois Department of Corrections at the Thomson prison. I was one of the command staff that was to get the place ready to bring in maximun security STATE inmates late last year. It never happened. The state built this place in 2001 because we needed another max facility bad. We need it even worse now. Illinois will be in the news alot before too long because of prison violence if any of the stuff that is happening gets out to the public. Heres an example of some of the stuff that has happened in the past couple of months. A warden was beat bad enough that he had to have his eye socket behind his eyes meshed together. A plan to kill a female officer THAT NIGHT was found, only because an inmate told them about it (not that we had staff to actually search for stuff) along with a nice stash of weapons. An inmate died of a heroin overdose and numerous had positive drug tests. A librarian was held hostage for seven hours before our tactical unit made entry, he tried to stab her. He wont see court, he didnt make it. We also had another hostage situation in 2006 were the female was raped numerous times over 27 hours. There have been so many fights and staff assaults its impossible to keep count. Oh by the way, these incidents happened in medium and minimun security facilities, not max joints. We dont have any more max bed space (other that the 3200 empty ones sitting in Thomson). Every day max inmates are "reclassified" to medium and minimum status and moved to places they shouldnt be. I want Thomson open, but as a state facility, not a federal one.
