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Locks used as weapons in the video that seems to show the Arizona prison

Locks used as weapons in the video that seems to show the Arizona prison

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  • A video that is a struggle in a Arizona prison with provisional weapons has appeared on social media.
  • The officers of the department for corrections, rehabilitation and re -entry to Arizona have stated that they will tackle inquiries about the video next week.
  • The location and the date of the incident remain unconfirmed.

A video that records a struggle in an apparently Arizona prison on social media showed a man who is bloody and followed by two others with temporary turning stains – metal locks that hang on the ends of Tether.

Representatives of the Arizona prison system rejected the 3-minute video immediately.

The combatants were dressed in orange pants and shirts, stamped “ADC”.

It is not clear when or where the video was shot. A fight between one man and two others follows, which moves through a door and outside to a prison courtyard in a building. At some point in the film material that seems to be shot on a cell phone, no prison officers or prison staff are visible.

Mobile phones are viewed as smuggling goods in Arizona and are prohibited. How the person who filmed the video was unclear.

Arizona's prison system is operated by the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Return in Arizona. The department officials, who were reached by e -mail on May 16, said they would respond to the request of the Republic of Arizona to the video, including the question of whether they had been shot in Arizona prison next week.

On April 4, three men were killed in the Cimarron unit in the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson. The Department of Corrections identified Ricky Wasarenar, a violent repetitional offender, who served 16 lifelong prison terms for an experimental equipment from 2004 that turned into a hostage crisis, as the only suspect in triple murder. Saul Alvarez, 51, Thorne Harnage (42) and Donald Lashley (75) were killed.

The incident led to a strong criticism of the legislators of the state, including the judicial chair of the House, Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, who claimed the accountability of the department and questioned why Wasarenar was brought into a unit with lower security despite repeated warnings and earlier disciplinary injuries.

3-minute video shows the conflict movement in several prison areas

The video begins with two men on the floor, the legs are together and wrestle from each other.

A man with long black hair gets up and holds an orange connection. In the end, a metal combination lock swings – it holds it like a weapon.

Another man with short black hair, still on the floor, pushes back. His face and clothes are bloody.

Voices can be heard in the background.

“Joseph, give me the password.”

“Get it out of the (Expletive) here.”

“Do you want the password?”

“Let him go. Let him go, man.”

The bloody man stumbles on his feet and back out of the frame. The man with the provisional rotating flail follows, and another man, also in orange who holds a bound castle, closes behind him.

The room comes in sight: white ash -block walls, hip -high dividing walls, rows of bunk beds and two long, rectangular windows, the sunlight.

The second man with a rotary stain steps forward and deceives one step. The man with short hair absorbs a chair and tries to protect himself.

The audio fills heavy breathing. Someone outside the camera says: “Go on, out here.”

The camera dives behind a wall and then shows the scene again. A man holds his lock on his shoulder and ready to beat. The others crouched behind the chair, blood on his face and shoulder.

“You want me to go or not? Move,” says the bloody man.

“Go now,” replies one of the men and shows.

Then on the other hand: “Brother, just get the (Expletive) here on this page. Hurry up.”

“There – go,” says the man with long hair and shows the man with the chair.

“Okay. Password?” The man with the chair asks and holds his hand up.

“I don't give any (expedant),” comes the answer.

The bloody man goes through an open door, and the long -haired man follows the rotating flail.

“Let. Geh.

The camera follows them outside.

A cement path cuts between blue buildings on one side and a high metal fence on the other.

The two men are opposed to each other. The bloody man who is still wearing the chair suddenly throws him and runs.

The man with the rotating flail catches him. Pack it. The second man in a gun hurls and swings his castle. It hits.

The bloody man falls, lifts a trace of dust as he rolls away.

It climbs again near the metal fence, barbed wire over him and then starts along the edge.

“(Expletive) the rat,” says someone outside the camera.

The bloody man goes into the distance. The two men follow him.

In the background, a loud blast – like the bikes that beat in the concrete seams – echoes when the camera ends far behind and the video ends.

The video reflects well -known dangers in Arizona's prisons, says Advocate

Maria Morris, a senior lawyer of the national prison project of the American Civil Liberties Union, checked the video and reflected disturbing patterns reported by imprisoned people in Arizona, including attacks with improvised weapons such as castles in socks.

Morris, whose work focuses on solitary confinement, said that many people are built into general population units, even though they do not feel safe.

Prisoners often feel unsafe after they have decided by the belonging group of the prison gang by signing such a well -known “integrated living program”, which indicates the willingness to be accommodated with people of every breed, said Morris. In Arizona's prisons, this decision can mark someone as a goal.

The prison employee often tells them that they have to go to the general housing unit anyway, she said.

“You are said that you have to stay in the unit until they are threatened or attacked,” she said.

After that, they usually moved in solitary confinement – sometimes months – before the cycle is repeated, said Morris.

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