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Speaker 1: Now this correction story, they've launched an investigation into one

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Speaker 1: of their own prison guards. There was an altercation with

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Speaker 1: a seventy seven year old prisoner at spring Hill Prison.

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Speaker 1: This prisoner happens to be the notorious convicted murderer Dean Whickliffe,

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Speaker 1: who was recently recalled to prison when his lawyer says

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Speaker 1: he was beaten up for refusing to be double bunked.

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Speaker 1: And as Sikes is Dean Wickliff's lawyer, and she's with

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Speaker 1: me now and a good evening, good evening, So what

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Speaker 1: exactly did he throw? The correction says that he threw

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Speaker 1: something at the prison guard or in the room.

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Speaker 2: What happened there, We have a contested vision of events,

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Speaker 2: so those metters will no doubt be part of the investigation.

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Speaker 2: Our instructions are that And I want to just take

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Speaker 2: a step back. I wasn't notified by Springhill that he

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Speaker 2: would in custody. I was actually notified by a very

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Speaker 2: lovely police officer from the Total Press station the arrested

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Speaker 2: the Dean for a breach office role residence requirements, and

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Speaker 2: she had contacted me letting me know that they had

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Speaker 2: located him at the place of residence, but he was

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Speaker 2: sleeping in his car, which was a strict breach. One

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Speaker 2: of the problems is of homelessness in our area is

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Speaker 2: there is insufficient houses. But if you've been paroled to

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Speaker 2: an address, that's where you need to be. He was

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Speaker 2: found in his car by himself, with two cats that

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Speaker 2: he had been caring for that with stray cats. She

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Speaker 2: was concerned to let me know one that he had

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Speaker 2: been in prison too, that we needed someone to pick

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Speaker 2: up the car, three that she wanted me arranged rescued

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Speaker 2: for these cats because that was his instructness to me,

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Speaker 2: and four to contact him at Springhill the following day.

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Speaker 2: I did that, and I was advised by the people

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Speaker 2: that we were speaking to at spring Hill that he

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Speaker 2: didn't want to speak with me. It wasn't until Friday

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Speaker 2: last week that I found out that these other events

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Speaker 2: that you've discussed in your introduction had transpired, and that

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Speaker 2: in fact, she had been in hospital on Tuesday evening

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Speaker 2: as a result of the assault that he had suffered

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Speaker 2: as he entered his prison cell earlier that week.

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Speaker 1: So the corrections of saying he was he didn't he

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Speaker 1: didn't want to take your call because he was refusing

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Speaker 1: to leave his cell. I mean, you can't exactly force

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Speaker 1: him to take the phone, can you?

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Speaker 2: No? But I had he told me quite clear that

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Speaker 2: that wasn't the position, right so March no, he said

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Speaker 2: on a tenth of March, because he felt that he

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Speaker 2: wasn't giving equal treatments and their treatment that he had

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Speaker 2: asked specifically for where to be contacted. He also decided

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Speaker 2: at that point that he you know, this is an

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Speaker 2: individual that understands very well the regulatory requirements for prisoners

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Speaker 2: while they are in custody. He also felt that he

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Speaker 2: was being denied fundamental rights that you normally get to

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Speaker 2: all prisoners, and he wanted to have those matters dealt with.

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Speaker 2: Then he was accosted, He was assaulted and Ion strattenz

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Speaker 2: Are his head was smashed into the concrete. Photos have

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Speaker 2: been released that show quite clearly that his version of

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Speaker 2: events has some of the recipity. And we're also now

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Speaker 2: advised today some several days after that, even the internal

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Speaker 2: investigation crisis of the Department of Corrections himself have actually

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Speaker 2: stood down the prison officer. Something was wrong.

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Speaker 1: There and it stites. Thank you very much for your time.

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