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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Bruce A. Rogers, Esquire - COAD Counsel - 302-856-7161
Statement from COAD
The recent statement attributed to Commissioner Phelps is misleading as to the impact of the ACLU/CLASI agreement on prison management. It's not that the inmates involved in the murder of Lt. Floyd were on the mental health roster. What has happened, as a result of the agreement made by Gov. Markel, then-Commissioner Coupe and AG Denn is that there is simply no space to house those most dangerous inmates as we make room for the mental health roster inmates. Minimizing the use of higher security buildings and housing units to segregate mental health inmates, classification of other inmates in a way that has members of rival factions on the same tier in the same building and reducing the penalties for misbehavior by inmates and putting mental health advocates between inmates and officers have all led to the mess which exists in all of our prisons - not just JTVCC. To say the inmates involved in the riot were not on the mental health roster misses the issue. The effect of the ACLU/CLASI - Markel Administration agreement is to make our prisons more dangerous places.
The Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, "COAD" is an employee organization within the meaning of 19 Del. Code ยง1302(i). COAD was certified as the exclusive bargaining representative unit of Correctional Officers in the Delaware Department of Correction.
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