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Guard attacked, training questioned
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — A female prison guard
attacked during an inmate cell search may not have
followed proper search procedures, a former Texas
warden said.
Irene Fonseca, 35, was airlifted to a San Antonio
hospital Wednesday after convicted rapist Bryan
Thomas, 40, attacked her. Fonseca suffered facial
fractures and swelling around her brain and had
most of her teeth knocked out.
The attack occurred after Fonseca found extra
food and toiletries hidden in Thomas' coffeepot
during a routine search at the Connally Unit in
Karnes County.
"If the inmate was physically there in the cell of
the dorm bunk, why wasn't he put somewhere else?"
Terry Pelz, a warden in the Texas prison system for
almost a decade, said in Sunday's editions of the Cor
pus Christi Caller-Times. "We always operated that
“We always operated that
way. There's never any
rush to do a shakedown."
— Terry Pelz
Texas prison system warden
way. There's never any rush to do a shakedown."
Larry Todd, a spokesperson for the Texas De
partment of Criminal Justice, declined to comment
on Fonseca's actions because prison officials are still
investigating the attack. But he said it is standard
procedure to secure an inmate before searching a cell.
Pelz said inmates should be secured in another area
of the prison. Pelz said Fonseca, who has been em
ployed at the Connally Unit since August of 1999, may
not have been properly trained to handle the situation.
"She may not have known," Pelz said. "She was
there 10 months and may never have been told that."
Brian Olsen, deputy director of the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Em
ployees, told the Caller-Times extensive training
problems exist throughout the prison system be
cause of staff shortages.
News in Brief
Tug boat sinks
while towing ship
BAYTOWN (AP) — An 87-foot
tugboat towing a cruise ship sank
in the Houston Ship Channel ear
ly Saturday.
None of the Jupiter tug’s five
crew members were injured. The
760-foot, Houston-based Big
Red Boat III cruise ship was dam
aged, but none of its 1,148 pas
sengers were hurt. The ship,
which had just completed a sev
en-day cruise, docked safely.
Lt. Bob Schoen, a spokesper
son for the U.S. Coast Guard,
said about 30 gallons of diesel
fuel from the Jupiter leaked into
the Houston Ship Channel.
Death row inmat
attacks chaplaii
HUNTSVILLE (APJ-Aprit
chaplain injured in a death
attack was out of surgery;
listed in fair condition Sate
Westbrook was doing vo
teer ministry on death roww
he was attacked by Juan St
33, who is facing execution'
month for a 1985 robbery-s
ing in Fort Worth, Departe
Criminal Justice spokesman;
ry Fitzgerald said.
On Friday, a death row in
attacked William Paul Weste
a 78-year-old volunteer chap'
severely cutting the minis!;
right wrist, authorities said.
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