ScI Forest reviews and complaints

On December 7, 2010, inmate McCool, DN4994, was taken out from his cell by a Lieutenant McMahan into the cold blast that hit eastern half of the USA. He was taken out in this sub zero temperatures, while only wearing his undergarments, for about a half mile walk to the other building on the premise. This lieutenant wanted this inmate not to continue on filing his complaint against correctional officer, Reitz. He said that he can take him to a place where he wouldn't want to go. Inmate 4994, McCool, said he could not do that (after all he was not doing anything wrong). He said that he can, and he will beginning with that hat he was making (which was for me). Inmate 4994 made two hats already for presents/ gifts to his family. The one he was working on was for another member of his family. He said that what he was working on is what he said it is. So this Lieutenant McMahan said it was a device he was making to escape from prison. So he ordered the inmate upon his feet and hands behind his back, putting handcuffs on him, walking him to the R&D. On his way, he was being told it is not too late to change his mind. However, this inmate was getting harassed by CO Reitz. This corrections officer was going after inmate DN4994 by taking away visitations from his 38-year- old daughter; whom he just met in June 201o. He was not going to allow that to happen. CO Reitz first attempt did not succeed, so this CO filed another misconduct report, where he was alleging sexual relations taking place in the visitation room on Thanksgiving Day. This man is sick! As a consequence, inmate DN4994 was placed in the RHU. When the hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, , K. P. Reisinger, refused to hear the facts and take the eye witness testimony (which the inmate had, including the photos of the hats made to his daughter, the eyewitness testimony of the independent witness who knew CO Reitz allegations were absolutely false and his daughters - AND the video tape on Thanksgiving and on December 7, 2010, when inmate was taken in his underwear in sub zero temperatures). The hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, said that it was too much for her to look at and found him GUILTY, sentenced him to 270 days in the RHU (not banning her to go see him, however, in the RHU, inmates are only allowed one visit - 1 hour- per month). The hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, did not do her job, she unjustly punishment this inmate for something he did not do wrong. Risking the health of this inmate in the process (he has a medical condition they are well aware of); endangering the welfare of this inmate. Consequently the hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, is being a participant in defaming and slandering his daughter with this wild accusation of having a sexual relationship with her own father. A father his daughter never knew before until 2010. His daughter was denied this right, now that she found him; SCI-Forest is finding every way possible to deny her of her own father. SCI-Forest is going to the extremes by saying false and untrue statements – statements that can be proven to be false - if they only look at their own surveillance tapes in the visiting room. They would NOT have found him guilty. Neither would they have found him guilty of the hat he was making since he can provides the photos to substantiate he was making gifts. This need to be corrected immediately … If not, the daughter is going to have to seek out legal help to go after SCI-Forest civilly. They have tainted the image of his daughter, now when she goes to visit him (no matter where inmate DN4994 is housed) she will have no standing there. This hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, did not do her job. She would not look at the evidence but rather just relied on a CO’s word. A CO how has been found in the previous report filed to have lied, which lead to the first report dismissed. Thus made him go after inmate DN4994 and his daughter with all he had to make sure this time it stuck. In additionally finding DN4994 guilty, they also found his daughter guilty without her right to be able to defend herself. After all, she did not give up any of her constitutional rights. She had never been arrested or incarcerated a day in her life. It's not fair! They have slandered and defamed his daughter. Now when she makes those visits, she will with a soiled reputation. The hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, was able to do this to his daughter with absolutely no proof; only the words from a corrections officer who is known to concoct lies for his own best interests. This conviction should be expunged from inmate DN4994 record. This hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, is careless and was so incompetent and reckless. She should be fired. She is propagating this defamation and slander of Reitz is making against his daughter without requiring proof! NONE WHATSOEVER! This screams a civil lawsuit. How in the hell can they do that! The daughter is being shamed, ridiculed, held in contempt, and lowered in the estimation of the community. This judgment will/has wind up damaging her reputation among those who work there or anywhere. That hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, went totally against my rights; she failed to determine whether a statement implies a factual assertion, courts are supposed to examine the totality of the circumstances in which these accusations are being made. They are to first look at the statement in its broad context, the subject of the statements (which included me who still maintains all of her constitutional rights), the setting. Next they are to turn to the specific context and content of the statements, analyzing the extent of figurative or hyperbolic language used and the reasonable expectations of the people of interest in that particular situation. Finally, they inquire whether the statement itself is sufficiently factual to be susceptible of being proved true or false. Here we have evidence such as surveillance video tapes on that day and eye witness testimony. NONE OF THIS WAS DONE IN OUR CASE. It was too much work for this examiner to do. She was not intelligent enough to understand and put it all together for her to make that fair verdict, which should have found inmate DN4994 NOT GUILTY. This hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger, was totally unsuited to be a hearing examiner, K. P. Reisinger. This incompetence should not be tolerated. SCI Forest should be exposed to for what it is…. It is an institution that is being run like a third-world country with its own rules and laws that are not that of the United States of America. The employees there are bringing in contraband and making weapons just to bring them overtime. They are using the prehearing confinement as a routine, when DOC says in their handbooks that it is not. SCI-Forest is treating its institution where they turned it into a training ground to teach Para-military tactics in the right and wrong ways to house and control terrorist. To my knowledge there is not a single inmate at SCI Forest was adjudicated by any court or tribunal as being a terrorist or enemy of the state. So why are the inmates at SCI Forest treated as terrorists or enemies of the State? At SCI Forest there are not enough rest rooms for the inmates. There are a lack of lavatories in crucial areas, like the prison yards and day rooms (just to name a few places). Where do you think those inmates have to defecate if they have to in those areas? It does not take a genius to figure that out. The guards have lavatories … Why not the inmates? Even the water that gets pumped into this prison is not good enough to drink, the guards would not even dream of drinking it. They have a fresh supply of it everywhere. Not the inmates! This institution is classified as a Prototypical prison (one of two in Pennsylvania)… It must be in that it is unsafe to house inmates and those who work there are running it in a tyrannical manner. This should not be happening in the United States of America. What I have just written here is just the tip of the iceberg to what is happening in SCI Forest. I think that I should start up a web site and indulge all for the public to read. I bet if I would get more to tell you because they would abuse their power against the innocent (such as inmate DN4994), abuse the system and abuse the process. This is what they did when they sanctioned punishment against DN4994; which needs to be corrected ASAP!

I received a disturbing letter tonight, 10-18-10 from my son, Myron Moton DM8775, and a phone call from one of the inmates in the prison stating that my son was being forced to live in unsanitized conditions! There is blood all over his walls, and I hope and pray It's not his! He also said ."he is freezing, without a blanket ! '"I'm about to call Ms. Lorrie Williams on channel 10 News, and State Senator Shirley Kitchen if this matter isn't investigated by tomorrow! Please let my son call me and tell me he's ok! and that no form of retaliations is coming down on him! This all started because my son wrote a grievences against some of the CO's who where reprimanded or dismissed for bad conduct! They probally should havebeen let go along time ago! I will not tolerate this sort of conduct, nor do my son have to be subject to this sort of behavior or conditions. If my son gets sick I hold you all responsible and will sue to the fullest extent! Please see that this letter get in the rigth hands so that this matter can be resolved immediatedly! Thankyoy Mrs S. Moton [protected]