Thread: Rep. Duncan Hunter Calls for Bureau of Prisons Director...

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/pu ... 4460.shtml

Rep. Duncan Hunter Calls for Bureau of Prisons Director to Be Fired Over Prison Beating of Border Patrol Agent.
by Sam Antonio
February 7, 2007

In a letter to President Bush dated February 6, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) chastised the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for placing Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos in the general prison population at the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Facility in Mississippi.

Rep. Hunter pointed out that he had written to BOP Director Harley Lappin in January urging that the agents be segregated from the general prison population for their safety. He received a letter from Director Lappin’s assistant at BOP assuring him that they would be segregated from the general population and that all measures would be taken to assure their safety. This was not done, and agent Ramos was attacked and severely beaten on February 3 by Mexican inmates at the facility.

Rep. Hunter’s February 6 letter to President Bush says:

I was assured by the Bureau of Prisons staff that, subsequent to my letter, agents Compean and Ramos had been segregated from the general prison population and close attention was being paid to their personal safety. Yesterday, I was informed that agent Ramos was assaulted by inmates within the general population.

Placing these two Border Patrol agents in general population, especially when assuring Congress it would not happen, constitutes an enormous dereliction of duty by the Administrator of the Prisons Bureau. It is my recommendation that the assault against agent Ramos be investigated and should it be ascertained that the Bureau did place agent Ramos in the general population, thereby exposing him to danger, Prisons Bureau Director Harley Lappin should be discharged from his position.

Joe Kasper, press secretary for Rep. Hunter, told The New American on February 7 that Rep. Hunter is also looking into many other discrepancies surrounding the reported excessive delays in providing agent Ramos with medical attention after the attack and the transfer of Ramos from his safer minimum security prison in New Mexico to the more dangerous facility in Mississippi. “There are so many things wrong with this case, from the very beginning,” said Kasper. “Congressman Hunter has repeatedly pointed out that the excessive sentence here — 11 and 12 years for the two agents — when most the average sentence for murderers is only eight-and-a half years,” is totally unreasonable. If they received any penalty at all, he noted, it should have been the usual reprimand and several days of administrative leave for failing to file the required incident report.

The national attention and uproar that the case has been receiving has helped Rep. Hunter’s bill (H.R. 563) for a congressional pardon for agents Compean and Ramos. “We’re now up to 81 sponsors, including Congressman Hunter,” said Kasper, and pressure continues to build for President Bush to pardon them.

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Complete copies of letters are at the link.

"The Fish Rots from the head"

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON NOW!!
Where are you slimeball democrat Senators and Congresspeople? Stand up you bunch of panderers!

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON NOW!!

Now is right!!!!!

“We’re now up to 81 sponsors, including Congressman Hunter,” said Kasper, and pressure continues to build for President Bush to pardon them.

........and the decider is staying his course......... hoping we will all just go away and let him do as he pleases.....

I find it more then a little ironic that Ramos, a border guard who was once nominated for Border Guard of the year , can not even get decent Medical help and seen by a physician where he is in prison, while the druggie he was chasing, received the best of care in one of our Veterans Hospitals. I bet if the Vets knew about the druggie in the hospital with them receiving care so he could go to court lie against our guards, they might have paid a little visit to the druggie lying up in a bed that was suppose to be for veterans only!