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. >> one man who knows stateville better than most is captain kenneth morgan. he's worked here more than 28 years. he's seen the violent potential of the prison at its worst. >> we had a lot of problems with the gangs here at stateville carrying shanks, assaulting staff, assaulting other inmates. >> where are you going? >> we had an officer by the name of officer kush. probably one of the best officers i ever knew. he was returning from chow, going back to "g" dorm. on his way back there was a couple inmates back here hiding, they was waiting on him. they hit him in the head in this area right in here and they dumped his body right down here. this is where they dumped the body. >> officer kush was one of eight stateville employees to lose his life to prison violence since the prison opened in 1925. for many, some violence was accepted as a way of life inside a maximum security prison. but for others, it was a shocking and disturbing awareness that the prisoners had too much power. this was true for one young correctional officer who occasionally toured through
. >> one man who knows stateville better than most is captain kenneth morgan. he's worked here more than 28 years. he's seen the violent potential of the prison at its worst. >> we had a lot of problems with the gangs here at stateville carrying shanks, assaulting staff, assaulting other inmates. >> where are you going? >> we had an officer by the name of officer kush. probably one of the best officers i ever knew. he was returning from chow, going back to "g"...
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. >> one man who knows stateville better than most is captain kenneth morgan. he's worked here more than 28 years. he's seen the violent potential of the prison at its worst. >> we had a lot of problems with the gangs here at stateville carrying shanks, assaulting staff, assaulting other inmates. >> where are you going? >> we had an officer by the name of officer kush. probably one of the best officers i ever knew. he was returning from chow, going back to "g" dorm. on his way back there was a couple inmates back here hiding, they was waiting on him. they hit him in the head in this area right in here and they dumped his body right down here. this is where they dumped the body. >> officer kush was one of eight stateville employees to lose his life to prison violence since the prison opened in 1925. for many, some violence was accepted as a way of life inside a maximum security prison. but for others, it was a shocking and disturbing awareness that the prisoners had too much power. this was true for one young correctional officer who occasionally toured through
. >> one man who knows stateville better than most is captain kenneth morgan. he's worked here more than 28 years. he's seen the violent potential of the prison at its worst. >> we had a lot of problems with the gangs here at stateville carrying shanks, assaulting staff, assaulting other inmates. >> where are you going? >> we had an officer by the name of officer kush. probably one of the best officers i ever knew. he was returning from chow, going back to "g"...
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kenneth? >> good. >> mr. morgan we called you in today to give you the results of the committee action, the decision made by the classification bureau on the recent committee that was held and the review that was done for your possible transfer to a level one facility. unfortunately, at this point, the classification bureau is not willing to approve the transfer because of the time frame still left. your projected release date. so we wanted to take this opportunity to let you know. >> okay. >> so how long until i can reapply again? >> patrick? >> six months, we'll go ahead and re-evaluate you to make sure in between now and then you don't pick up any reports. and just keep earning your good time. we'll get you there eventually. we really will. i'll work really hard to get you there. >> do you have any other questions for us? >> no. all right. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> the classification bureau will review inmates that don't meet the time criteria, but he's a model inmate here. so we referred him ear
kenneth? >> good. >> mr. morgan we called you in today to give you the results of the committee action, the decision made by the classification bureau on the recent committee that was held and the review that was done for your possible transfer to a level one facility. unfortunately, at this point, the classification bureau is not willing to approve the transfer because of the time frame still left. your projected release date. so we wanted to take this opportunity to let you know....