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I'm mad at myself, but i take it out on whoever is around me. staff members, prisoners who are nearby. >> relationships between officers and inmates at limon run the gamut. with shreiber, it involves verbal abuse. >> with bryan hansen, it's trying to get too close to staff. >> what's happening? where are you going to? >> i'm going to a hearing for solicitation of staff. >> did you have a statement or something? i'll make sure they grab all your paperwork and stuff. >> hansen is due to face the prison disciplinary committee for allegedly having given unwanted attention to rookie officer dawn mc...

Solicitation of staff. >> did you have a statement or something? i'll make sure they grab all your paperwork and stuff. >> hansen is due to face the prison disciplinary committee for allegedly having given unwanted attention to rookie officer dawn mcdaniel, including an attempt to give her a ring. >> see, i throwed out this other thing here of like things that i was going to say, you know? towards my defense. if you want to read over that. >> hansen will be assisted in his defense by inmate advocate, billy edwards. >> i probably wouldn't even go too much into any of that. >> you wouldn't even ...

And speaking straight from the heart, i told her i was out of line. i was only playing. i didn't mean any disrespect and i would never do anything to put her job in jeopardy. i also said i would back off and stop joking around with her if that's what she wanted. i also told her that i thought she was an awesome person and had a great personality. and with our conversations, she was an inspiration on wanting me to get off my ass and get out of prison. i know i'm an idiot. and i shouldn't play around with staff and prison. i apologize wholeheartedly to c.o. mcdaniel, to this hearings board, and ...

Misconduct, do you plead guilty, not guilty, or guilty in estimation? >>o guilty. it's officer dawn mcdaniel's statement that this man, bryan hansen, did offer to give her a ring. had she accepted that gift, it would have been a violation of the colorado department code of ethics. >> on mr. hansen's behalf, the beginning of this report is saying that he offered her a ring. i believe that based on the job that mr. hansen had at the time, it may have been misinterpreted what was said and i think it was just taken out of context. i don't think his intention was to give this officer this ring. >> ...

So i had to write a report and turn it in to the shift commander. >> hansen was written up for solicitation of staff. a charge the prison takes very seriously. >> as a department and as a facility, we have zero tolerance for staff becoming involved with offenders in any type of personal relationship. some of the problems with new officers is their lack of experience in working in corrections or law enforcement. and they run the risk of becoming too comfortable in the setting and getting either assaulted by offenders or becoming manipulated by them. >> i've only been here about a month. i'm sti...