Lewis prison inmate who took employee hostage in 2006 did it again Wednesday (Tucson: crimes)

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An inmate who took a prison officer hostage in 2006 did it again on Wednesday morning, holding a male library employee against his will at Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis near Buckeye, according to corrections officials.


Prison personnel rescued the employee from inside the law library and put the inmate, Timothy Monk, back into custody about two hours after the standoff began at 8:15 a.m., a media release said.

No one was injured, officials said.

Monk used a homemade knife and demanded to leave the complex, according to prison officials.

Members of the prison's tactical support unit talked with the inmate but apparently did not reach a resolution.

Shortly after 10:30 a.m., personnel deployed a "diversionary device" into the library and used "less-than-lethal force" on Monk while moving the employee to safety, the media release said.


"Protecting the safety and welfare of our employees is paramount," Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan said in a statement.

Monk was sentenced at 16 years old to nearly 100 years in prison for armed robbery, sexual assault and kidnapping in 1988, according to past news reports.

In 2006, he held a female prison guard hostage at a Tucson prison with a shank made from razors and Plexiglas, the reports said. He sexually assaulted her during the five-hour standoff and demanded to be transferred to a prison in Montana.

The incident highlighted a severe shortage of prison guards at the time.

Even in recent years, the Arizona Department of Corrections has struggled with staffing. In June 2017, the agency, which gets $1 billion annually from the state general fund, was 846 officers short at a 13 percent vacancy rate.


Monk was unrepentant during his hostage trial and was sentenced to 28 more years before being transferred to the Florence prison.

He told court officials he spent his days thinking about committing crimes and "getting away with it better," according to news reports at the time.

As Monk was led out of the courtroom, he shouted "I shall return!"

Those words may soon come true.

Corrections officials said Monk will face new charges for Wednesday's standoff.

The longest prison-hostage standoff in U.S. history occurred at Lewis prison in 2004.

Two inmates overpowered two corrections officers and took control of a fortified watchtower for 15 days. They eventually surrendered and were given additional life sentences.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ge/2415676002/

[RichCapeCod]

He'll do better when he gets out on parole...

Rich

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Good thing he wasn't in CA, Brown just pardoned a #$#$ load of felons.

[observer53]

He was already serving 96 years.

[Ghengis]

they should remove his tats

[banger]

Two things.....

1, THANK GOD for prisons.

2, Is Arizona short of ammunition or something?