Guards at a Pennsylvania prison are accused of
organizing inmate fights and challenges, which they allegedly referred to as
"Retard Olympics."
According to state police, three corrections
officers at York County Prison are facing charges in
connection with the case.
Daniel H. Graff, 37, Mark Andrew Haynes, 26, and
David Michael Whitcomb, 28, face charges of official oppression and are on
unpaid administrative leave, police said.
"The corrections officers arranged fights and
stunts to take place under the promise that if the inmates competed or won,
they would get extra food and extra coffee,"Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Robert Hicks told
The Huffington Post.
The "fights and stunts" to which Hicks
refers are detailed in statements given to police by inmates David Michael
Wright and James Williams Hicks Jr., no relation to Robert Hicks.
In a written statement to police, Wright, 27, said
the first incident occurred when Graff, Haynes and Whitcomb arranged for him to
wrestle James Hicks, also 27.
The men were allegedly promised lounge food and
extra coffee if they won. Wright said he won that first match and as a result
James Hicks was no longer permitted to keep his job as a hall worker.
Wright also alleged that he was told to wrestle
Graff in a storage closet.
"He cut my air supply off, so I dropped him on
the ground and he said enough, enough," Wright wrote in his statement to
police.
The inmate also claimed he was offered food in
exchange for allowing Whitcomb to punch him in the leg and give him a
"dead leg," meaning the inmate's leg would go numb for a short period
of time.
Wright said he allowed the officer to punch him in the leg and arm,
but never received payment.
Graph also allegedly failed to follow through on a
promise to give Wright coffee for allowing the corrections officer to spray
pepper foam in his face.
In his own statement to police, James Hicks told
authorities the fights and challenges, which he said were consensual, were
called the "Retard Olympics." He said he would do "stupid stuff
for food and coffee."
That "stupid stuff," James Hicks alleged,
included, drinking a gallon of milk in an hour, eating a spoon full of
cinnamon, snorting a line of spicy vegetable powder and drinking a bottle of
water with pepper spray foam in it.
How stupid
can those in power
really be???
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