he still continues to make threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. you tell him. he s a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isn t long before they find cause for concern. we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his shower head. inmate gomes has done this in the past to not only use the shoe laces to pull and activate sprinkler heads but he s also attempted on several occasions to harm himself by tying the shoe laces around his neck. deputies cut down the shoe laces and confiscate them. in the past, gomes and other inmates have caused floods by damaging shower or sprinkler heads. he ll tie the shoelace to the sprinkler head and yank the mechanism on the sprinkler head that allows the sprinkler to activate.
roxbury crackhead cell phone ringer lieutenant medeiros has spent more than his share of time with gomes over the past seven months. he tends to ramp himself up over a wide variety of things that seem very minor to us but seem big to him. there s no free come of speech in jail? he s already pulled several sprinkler heads and activated the heads and attempted several times to harm himself and he s been extremely verbally abusive and threatening to harm staff. no sooner does night shift commander come on duty then he spots gomes standing on his toilet reaching for a sprinkler head. what were you doing up there? i saw you up there. what were you doing up there? you don t have anything in your cell, do you? like what? anything. you searched me five times and you still can t find no [ bleep ] that i have. every time they leave i break out a bag of coffee or [ bleep ] peach kool-aid and have a sip. okay? they never get everything.
he s looking for, the reality is he s loading up on urine. so he can possibly throw it at someone if he s not getting his way. you know who that was for, for lieutenant medeiros. we ll see about getting you out of the chair first and see what you can do. is that fair? he singled me out, he s the only one that comes to my cell, only one that writes me up, he s the only one that keeps hassling me. so i was saving him a little present. he made threats that he was going to use it to throw in lieutenant medeiros face next time he comes around. that s a threat we take seriously. he ll receive a disciplinary report for tying the string onto the sprinkler head, the cup of urine on the floor, as well as making threats to the lieutenant. how much time do you still have to do? five years? five years in this [ bleep ] hellhole, no thanks. i d rather do five years in a grave. for this incident, gomes could receive up to 30 additional days in segregation. if he continues to pile u
i got [ bleep ] you ll never find. want me to try? turn around. back up to the door, put your hands through, sir. the captain assembles a team of deputies to inspect gomes sprinkler head and the rest of his cell for any other contraband. okay. we re going to take that down. within seconds of removing gomes from his cell, the deputies unravel the string from around the sprinkler head. he tied a piece of bed sheet up on the sprinkler head up there and he s ready to pull the sprinkler head. that s why we re going in there, doing a cell search, take it out and check his cell for any other type of contraband or weapons or anything because he s known to do this. because he s making threats to doing inappropriate things when i come on the shift we want to make sure there s nothing in here that would allow him to do, like for instance i m looking down here beside this toilet and it seems to be a cup full of urine, and we ll have that taken out of here in a minute. the sprinkler
okay. nobody in this jail can say rick gomes ever broke his word. okay, all right, that s fair enough. listen, all i m going to tell you is this. this isn t personal. i know you might think it is because you get angry. no one wants to do this. no one wanted to do this. but we need you to comply with the rules and regulations. can i get a drink of water? we ll get you out of the chair first. and we ll see what we can do. is that fair? okay. in addition to that, you understand that after being removed from the chair, if you urinate out of your cell door, spit on the window, activate a sprinkler head or tend to harm yourself, you know where you re going to go. i m all done. where are you going to go, back in the restraint chair. i need you to acknowledge that. yes, sir. you re not going to do any of those things? no, sir. okay. inside here i only fight with the correctional officers. they call it their house. it should be our house. we sleep here, 24/7. back in the