Prison from Hell

First of all I am a Prison Guard who has worked for a contemptably corrupt and abuse ridden prison in Lycoming County near Lewisburg Pennsylvania for several years. The things I have seen in there done to prisoners by my fellow guards are horrendous and beyond contempt! I hope someone has the guts to come in and fire "all my fellow guards" in there that steal, beatup, and actaully have raped both male and female prisoners. If I would report them and "go on the record" then I would no doubt get fired and get immidiately discredited if not locked up for the time I was accused of raping a prisoner, or for thefts ,or have our corrupt local Williamsport Police plant someting on me, or they'd simply put in a mental institution just to "shut me up"! This is much like that Robert Redford movie "Brubaker", except my Warden just looks the other way with all terrible abuse of prisoners and the chaos in the prison. Incidently, my girl friend Jill, who works for the Jersey Shore Bank in Williamsport convinced me to keep "singing loudly" about the prison and what I have seen and will see in the future. By the way, ironically, she see's a few of her fellow tellers actually ripping off the bank and stealing from customers accounts but she is afraid to tell anyone for fear she will be fired and blamed for God knows what. Not long ago she was "supposedly" seen on video tape for stealing cash herself, but it was unfounded, though no doubt they would use that evidence against her if she went to the authorities about that lousy bank. She was actually blamed for stealing customers money right out of the vault, give me a break! That's another story. Anyway, me and my girl friend have been getting flack for telling our neighbors and anybody else we come in contact with about the prison and her bank, but no one seems to care. We fear for our safety at times, and I think me and her and our dog Baily might move out of town if not the state because of this living nightmare. I'd hate to do that and would like to make a stand, but it's getting pretty bad thses days. The living nightmare got "much worse" when just a few weeks ago there was a "drive by" shooting in Williamsport right up Adams Street ""incredibly close"" to my half double brick house, and I hope it wasn't meant for us, though with "what" one of my now ex-fiend who is also a Prison Guard that I had just "complained to" before the shooting had happened... I think it was too close to home. I also recently found out that my address even got out to a few released prisoners who want to get back at me, plus my fellow corrupt guards obviously have ways to scare a snitch too like me too. I'm very glad this site is private and we can vent on line to those who might hear us and believe us. Maybe this nightmare will end and the prison and even my girlfriend's bank will be investigated. No doubt this is risky telling my story, but the lack of integrity me and my girl friend have demands that we tell our stories to anyone who will listen so we can sleep at night. I do not know who to turn to, but it is good this site is here so that maybe someone besides me will nail the prison and the bank! Thank you Job Shmob for listening!
Sincerely,
Lester Ott of Williamsport PA

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BonusOnus (03/31/2008) Lester, At-will employment doesn't protect you from most arbitrary firings. A company can let you go for any reason except the following: race ethncity gender marital status age (limited) **Whistle blowing** If you blow the whistle on corruption, you cannot be threatened with job dismissal or termination. Of course, it can get a lot worse than just losing your job - you already mentioned that you are worried about being framed or arrested. Get a lawyer. Or talk to a member of the media that will blow the whistle on this. You saw "The Shawshank Redemption" haven't you? dotherightthing (04/01/2008) Lester, I hope that is not your real name, because I do fear for you. Corruption is pretty much everywhere now. It starts at the top, George Bush, and flows down. I am so disappointed with the rate that corruption, lies, dishonesty, crime....seems to have increased in just the past few years. Please be careful. You are probably in the most dangerous of jobs when your coworkers have it for you. Take care. sick of it (04/01/2008) Um, does anyone else get a feeling that Lester is not really the one who posted this? It seems like someone is trying to set up Lester if you ask me. Too many name and personal details mentioned. I smell a rat. CK (04/01/2008) Hard place to be in ... One thing you could do is to drop a line (printed page) to one of the local TV stations. One thing to remember to to make sure you don't leave prints, and hide your face, etc. ... kinda sounds like you're committing a crime doesn't it ... It is too bad that some have to result to such tactics! I wouldn't name names or anything and keep the two case seperate otherwise someone may put two and two together. I would also keep my trap SHUT! At least for several months. Just distance yourself from your self and hope some of this will fly over. In that way when you spring the note (add details but no names) to the local news nerds that you MAY be in the clear. I know first hand how tough it is to keep a job let alone getting another but you just may want to consider the possibility. I see much the same corruption (I don't work in Corrections!) where I work and know the rath from others who have position of some sort of 'power' over me. I see the decite, theft, and other (dark) gray activities from my organization (and I work for the local government!). I know that if you complain that your testimony may be seen by others including fellow workers and bosses. I know this first hand because one of the weasles I work with did this and was in a position (non-boss) position to make others who testified against our (now former) Supervisor suffer. Because of all this that I had experienced all the peole who testified against are no longer with us ... how 'convenent'!!! BonusOnus (04/01/2008) Dotherightthing, I'd be the last person to say that Bush is not corrupt. But compared to his predecessor and his wife, the Bush administraiton looks ethical. If you think corruption, lies, dishonesty and crime increased just in the past few years, maybe it's because it started under Clinton and is now being disclosed. Just like all those corporate scandals like Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, etc.? Happened under Clinton but disclosed under Bush. Yet people think it's Bush's fault for it. CK (04/01/2008) Actually Bonus I have to disagree with you. Ken Lay of Enron was one of Bush's closest friends and not Clinton's. But Enron and others were about to go bust anyway regardless of WHO was president past or present. The reason - GREED! Arthur Andersen broke their own values that stood for over 100 years, bent Enron's ear on how to cook the books. The reason is because consulting was much more profitable over accounting - that is where the money was being made! There was a rift between the two divisions of Andersen. But this greed over took other accounting firms as well. They were making money hand over fist. They twisted and/or by-passed GAAP standards and regulations. Portions of the Accounting industry was not regulated and ended up with the passage of Sarbanes and Oxley. Look around you and you will see the very same thing happening again in the housing loan arena! Again the government is stepping in and will be creating additional laws and regulations. There are banks out there now who never diviated from sound financial standards - guess what? They are doing fine and are strong today while others crumble around them! If you were to try to blame Clinton on this would be hard to do because this happened towards the end of Bush's watch. The housing prices balooned in the past few years as did the schemes. Why - again GREED. I am not blaming any presidency on the current condition but I do blame the Bush administration for not keeping a watchful eye on what was happening to the financial and housing market! As with Accounting, the Finacial market is to be self-regulating but once again greed got in the way. I even knew that something was up and not quite right. Buying a home was easy - paying for it would be harder! I knew about ARMs back in the 80's and knew enough to steer clear from them. Then they came out with the interest only terms ... sounded fishy to me! Warning lights went on! As to the laws ... Usually laws are passed as a result of something happening and not as preventive measures. BonusOnus (04/02/2008) CK, As you said, the shenanigans that Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, and a host of other corporate scandals, happened during Clinton's watch, not Bush's watch. This is not to say that these would not have happened under Bush either. But the fact is, these corporate scandals, backdating, fudging of corporate financial numbers to inflate stock prices, the misuse of corporate funds, all started in the late 1990s, during the dot com boom days. Who was president then? It wasn't Bush. Clinton crowed about a booming economy but it was basically a bubble, an asset bubble caused by loose money. It crashed. To stave off a worse economic condition, Greenspan loosened rates and added gasoline to the fire, causing the housing bubble that we are now facing. It was Gresham's Law working in the real world. I don't consider either Clinton or Bush at fault for their bubbles - that was Greenspan's role and he made it worse. It would've been better to have just have let the bubble work itself out but that would have caused a lot more pain than the 2000-2002 recession. But at the same time, can either president really brag about their "good economy" when it was really based on a bubble? CK (04/02/2008) Comm'on Bonus! It may not the presidents fault regardless! People as well as corporations are greedy - period. They will try to bend the laws and ethics any way they can. Case and point - the Saving & Loan scandle. Remember Neil Bush and Silverado. That was during the time of Bush Sr. was in office. While others who did the very same thing spent time at Club Fed, Neil had daddy pull some strings and got nothing. Who paid? The tax payers! Who do you think paid for Enron and friends? We did! Who do you think will pay for the finance/housing bust? ... Look, it wouldn't matter WHO is in office. Greed transends party politics. BonusOnus (04/03/2008) CK, I'm not arguing about greed. Come on. Any investor knows that speculation is based on "greed" and "fear". What I'm saying is that these bubbles (the dot-com and the housing bubble) were not necessarily the fault of Bush or Clinton but more of Greenspan; (2) it might have been better off to let the bubbles run its course rather than bailing it out. However, this would have been very very painful. The government didn't do much to help out the failing dot-com companies when they got overvalued capitalization from eager investors who didn't look at the underlying business model (Pets.com?) Why then is government willing to bail out those who took out mortgages they couldn't afford? or the banks who made the loans to people who should never have received them? dontask 0 (04/04/2008) Never mind assessing political blame. What else can we say to Not-Lester? He is in a bad place. CK (04/04/2008) L.O. is in quite a pickle! There isn't much room to manuver. My suggestion is to look for another position - quickly! L.O. May have to move to another city or even another state! BonusOnus (04/05/2008) *IF* he (Lester) is real, I'd blow the whistle. It's not just that he's in a bad job situation. He's also witness to crimes (abuse of prisoners, etc.) If I were an accountant in the finance dept and I saw the CFO steal money from the company that put the company to near bankruptcy, I could just leave for another job in protest. But wouldn't I owe it to my coworkers, who might lose their jobs, or the shareholders, who might lose their investment in the company's stock, to blow the whistle to stop the CFO? MSCANTBEWRONG (04/23/2008) Not Lester should remove his personal information from this post. If this is a set up, which it really sounds like it to me, not Lester is in a bit of a mess. The real Lester needs to contact the Internal Affairs office and report his findings, knowledges, suspicions, and fears of retribution. Hire an attorney immediately!!! Good Luck! POST A COMMENT »