Page 49 - Shank News Today

And you thought we just made the gas. energy lives here. fellas, go right to work. >> inmate workers or trust tees are on duty in the kitchen of clevelands cuyahoga county corrections center. but two of them, james dean and gary valentine, are locked up in security segregation as the jail continues to investigate whos responsible for the shank recently discovered among boxes in the kitchen. >> it happened to be a piece of

Scream to me "take the blame, dean, you only have little time left. were going to get fired, lose our positions." i then said, though, im not, it was not mine nor did i use it, ever. i know the consequences for something like that and i would never jeopardize my trustee job or my release date to go home over a piece of wood that looks like a shank. >> but the officer disputes deans claims that he is only in the stockroom under staff supervision. >> there was several times back there during a mea...

Charge count to 16, including five counts of aggravated robbery and four counts of felonious assault. he has pled not guilty to the new charges as well. >> after getting locked up so many times, you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, tired of going the same way. so i know what the bad life going to do. i know what the worst -- what the street life is going to get me. [ bleep ], its going to get me dead or in jail. let me see how this good life -- let me see what me trying to do it right...

I was asked to go help. >> who asked you? >> a c.o. i had an inmate thats incarcerated with me in there, gary valentine, hes the one that found it and didnt think anything of it and tried to throw it away and the officer asked what it was and thats when it was discovered. >> how long have you been a kitchen trustee? >> roughly 70 days. >> have you had any problems down there? >> no, maam, i have not been any problems. i have not been in any lockup. this is my first time to the hole. >> anything ...

>> whats your name? valentine -- >> step straight across, put your hands on the wall. >> though gary valentine found the shank and attempted to dispose it, he said it wasnt his. >> as i was going through an old box it look tattered and looked to be a piece of wood with a piece of plastic. working back in the stock room, we have a lot of broken pallets and they do tie the saran wrap on the pallet, sometimes on the bottom, but that particular day, it was more than it appeared, you know? >> step in...

Same time. it would be asinine for me to put it there and say, look what i found, come on. if i had anything to do with it, smart money would have been to leave it alone. when we got back to the pod, a few people were telling people to man up to it if it was yours. explain what it was used for and be done with it. >> was that a particular person? >> yes, it was. >> can you tell me who that person was? >> they did their investigation, im pretty sure they got the guy. >> dean says he knows exactly...

>> thank you. >> while the officers deliberate, dean is taken back to his cell in segregation. later, officer may comes to his cell to deliver their verdict. >> i wanted to let you know you are a do not return to the kitchen and the warden gave you 15 days for the major disruptive conduct. he threw out the -- we all threw out the charge of possession of a weapon. so you can rest easy on that. the ruling means dean will spend spend final days at cuyahoga county in segregation for not being truthf...

To trustees 10 to 1. but now that trust has been broken. >> single file. everybody in the back room. >> staff have confiscated a homemade weapon or shank. >> you guys are trustees, that means youre supposed to be trustworthy much more so than the regular inmate. but im not going to have one of my officers or staff around here getting stabbed or one of you getting stabbed. >> the kitchen is very dangerous place to work. we have all kind of items that can be utilized as weapons, tools they are use...

So whatever your holiday priority, our priority is you. good dinner tonight, mashed potatoes, gravy. salisbury steak. >> cuyahoga county correction center inmate james dean realizes he shares his name with a hollywood icon who lived fast and died young. even though hes serving time for drugs and assault, he insists he is not a rebel, he is specially when it comes to having a shank in jail. >> tell me im charged with possession of a weapon that i didnt even have possession ever. here im going t...

If i had anything to do with it, smart money would have been to leave it alone. when we got back to the pod, a few people were telling people to man up to it if it was yours. explain what it was used for and be done with it. >> was that a particular person? >> yes, it was. >> can you tell me who that person was? >> they did their investigation, im pretty sure they got the guy. >> dean says he knows exactly why the other inmates blamed him for the shank. >> i had everybody screaming at me, go ahe...