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1 MR. The recorder is on. My
2 name is , and I'm a senior
3 special agent with the U.S. Department of
4 Justice, Office of the Inspector General, New
5 York Field Office, and these are my
6 credentials.
7 Okay.
8 And this interview with
9 Federal Bureau of Prisons employeer
10 s being conducted as part of an
11 official U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
12 the Inspector General investigation. Today's
13 date is August 5, 2021, and the time is 1:49
14 p.m. This interview is being conducted at the
15 Metropolitan Correctional Center, located in
16 New York, New York. Also present is DOJ/OIG
17 Special Agent This interview
18 will be recorded by me, Special Agent - or
19 Senior Special Agent -
20 Could everyone please identify themselves for
21 the record, and spell their last name? To
22 start, again, I am DOJ/OIG Senior Special Agent
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24 MR. This is DOJ/OIG Special
25 Agent, The last name is
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1 Here is my credentials.
2 MS. : Okay. My name is officer
3 with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
4 Last name And these are
5 my credentials.
6 MR. You got your credentials
7 this time. Wow. Fancy. All right.
8 MR. Thank you.
9 MR. : Thank you. I am looking
10 at a picture, which it does match the person
11 sitting in front of me. This is an official
12 DOJ investigation into the death of inmate
13 Jeffrey Epstein and the surrounding
14 circumstances, and you are being asked to
15 voluntarily provide answers to our questions.
16 Will you agree to a voluntary interview with
17 the DOJ/OIG?
18 MS. Sure.
19 MR. All right. And there's a
20 form that we - and we just interviewed you,
21 just shortly, you know, a short time ago - but
22 it's the same form. It says, United States
23 Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector
24 General, Warnings and Assurances to Employee
25 Requested to Provide Information on a Voluntary
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1 Basis. "You are being asked to provide
2 information as part of an investigation being
3 conducted by the Office of the Inspector
4 General. This investigation is being conducted
5 pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978,
6 as amended. This investigation pertains to job
7 performance failure and security failure. This
8 is a voluntary interview. Accordingly, you do
9 not have to answer questions. No disciplinary
10 action will be taken against you if you choose
11 not to answer questions. Any statements you
12 furnish may be used as evidence in any future
13 criminal proceedings, or agency disciplinary
14 proceedings, or both." And there's a waiver
15 section. It says, "I understand the Warnings
16 and Assurances stated above and I am willing to
17 make a statement and answer questions. No
18 promises or threats have been made to me, and
19 no pressure or coercion of any kind has been
20 used against me." You want to take a look?
21 Again, it's the same form from before, but if
22 you agree, there's an employee signature, and
23 an employee's name, where you print.
24 MS. Mm-hmm. Okay.
25 MR. Thank you very much for
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1 signing and printing your name. Today's date
2 is - again - 8/5/21, and the time is --
3 MR. 1:52 p.m.
4 MR. -- 1:52 p.m. We are at
5 the MCC, New York. And I'm signing my name.
6 Again, this is And I'm
7 printing. Here you go, Special Agent
8 MR. This is I'm
9 signing on the signature of witness.
10 MR. Did you understand the
11 OIG form?
12 MS. Yes.
13 MR. Thank you. Before
14 starting the interview, I'd like to place you
15 under oath. Ms. can you please raise
16 your right hand? Do you swear to tell the truth
17 and nothing but the truth during this
18 interview?
19 MS.M Yes, I do.
20 MR. Great. Were you
21 previously interviewed by the OIG in August of
22 2019, and then again, by myself and
23 this past month, in July of 2021?
24 MS Yes. I was.
25 MR. All right. And you
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1 already showed me your credentials, so I don't
2 need to ask you this background stuff. Are you
3 currently employed by the BOP?
4 MS. Yes.
5 MR. And what is your current
6 position with the BOP?
7 MS. Receiving and Discharge.
8 Correctional Systems Officer.
9 MR. Is there any change since
10 the last time we spoke to you?
11 MS No.
12 MR. : Great. All right. So,
13 this is just a supplemental interview. When we
14 spoke last, you talked about some different
15 documentation that we could potentially obtain
16 in order to clear up some of the things we were
17 looking at. Specifically, we were looking into
18 Efrain Reyes. And when he was released, and
19 what would have been put on the court list.
20 The court transfer. So, when we last spoke, we
21 talked about this daily log. This, I'm going
22 to show you. It's from 8/9/2019. And on the
23 third page, where I've highlighted, it says
24 Reyes was pre-removed at 0838, when you had
25 mentioned, during our interview, that you can't
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1 tell exactly why he was removed at that point,
2 just that, if he's listed as pre-removed, it
3 was highly unlikely that he would have been
4 returned, and it was assumed that he was
5 leaving the MCC, for good. Is that correct?
6 MS. That is correct.
7 MR. : All right. Great. So,
8 there is that, in case you wanted to look at
9 it. So, we went back, and we found these
10 emails. And so, this is just the first email
11 that we found was, this was from al
12 from the U.S. Marshal Service.
13 MS : Okay.
14 MR. : And this was to, it looks
15 like - I'm assuming all of R&D, as well as
16 yourself.
17 MS. : Mm-hmm.
18 MR. : And then, it says, the
19 subject, "Transfer of Prisoners from NYM to
20 GEO." What is GEO?
21 MS. It's like a private prison
22 that the Marshals transfer the inmates to when
23 they can't be housed in the BOP.
24 MR. : Okay. And it says, date,
25 Thursday, August 8, 2019 --
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1 MS. Mm-hmm.
2 MR. MATULEWICZ: -- at 10:33 a.m. And the
3 body of the email, it says, "The following
4 prisoners are to be transferred."
5 MS. 'I'll": Mm-hmm.
6 MR. : And it's two people's
7 name, and the second one says Efrain Reyes.
8 "Please schedule the transfer for Friday,
9 8/9/2019."
10 MS. Mm-hmm.
11 MR : So, there's that one.
12 MS. Okay.
13 MR. : And then, there's another
14 email that came out the same day, that says
15 it's from another person with the U.S. Marshal
16 Service, with the last name
17 And this one was subject, "Prisoner
18 Production On 8/9/2019," and the date was
19 Thursday, August 8th, 2019 at 3:36 p.m., was
20 the email. And one of the attachments was NYM.
21 Is that MCC?
22 MS. IM Yes.
23 MR. : All right. Great. And
24 the second, the first two people are the same
25 two people that were listed on this other
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1 email. And the second person, as you'll see, is
2 Efrain Reyes. It says, "Transfer within," and
3 then, right underneath, it says Judge, MCC,
4 TOT, and then GEO.
5 MS. Mm-hmm.
6 MR. MATULEWICZ: What is TOT?
7 MS. Like, when they transfer them
8 out of the prison.
9 MR. Okay. So, by looking at
10 this stuff, does this now let you know what was
11 entered pre-removed and why?
12 MS. Yes. That he was being
13 officially removed out of the institution,
14 going to another destination.
15 MR. : Okay. So, was he ever
16 going to court, based on that?
17 MS. No. He was going to be
18 transferred to another prison.
19 MR. Okay. So then, we here
20 at the MCC, then, did know that he was going to
21 another prison, and not coming back to the MCC?
22 MS That is correct.
23 MR. And would you be the
24 person -? So, here's your work schedule.
25 MS. Mm-hmm.
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1 MR. : I think you couldn't
2 remember at the time. So, on the 8th and the
3 9th, it shows that you were working regular
4 time.
5 MS. Mm-hmm.
6 MR. : Eight hours. And would
7 you be the one that would have created that
8 court list for the SHU?
9 MS. For SHU?
10 Yeah. We were told by
11 your supervisor that you would be the person
12 that would have created that.
13 MS. • (Indioccrniblc *00:07:37)8/9
14 worked 2:00 to 10:00 for Semall.
15 Probably. So, I don't recall, but if that was
16 my position that day, then I probably would
17 have created it for the SHU.
18 MR. Okay.
19 MS. So, we do it the night
20 before, and send it out the housing units the
21 night before, and they take it up to their
22 units for the next day, for production.
23 MR : Okay. And then, what is
24 sent and how is it sent?
25 MS. We just type it in the Sentry
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1 system. We print out call outs. And the
2 internal officer will disseminate it, and pass
3 it around to the unit officers.
4 MR. MATULEWICZ: So, the way that the SHU
5 would - you would give it to internal, and then
6 internal would bring it to the SHU?
7 MS. That is correct.
8 MR. Okay. And what would the
9 SHU, what would they receive?
10 MS. They receive a print—out of
11 the call out, of whatever this is. This here
12 is people's report (Indiscernible *00:08:22),
13 they print out (Indiscernible *00:08:23) from
14 Sentry.
15 MR. So, they get a print—out
16 of the actual document?
17 MS. Not this document. A Sentry
18 devised document.
19 MR. Okay.
20 MS. We put their names in the
21 Sentry computer system. It prints out a call
22 out receipt, with all the names, the times, and
23 the internal officer would then take it to the
24 housing unit.
25 MR. : Okay. So, based upon
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1 this information that I just showed you
2 MS. Mm-hmm.
3 MR. what would have you
4 created? What would have it said next to Efrain
5 Reyes' name?
6 MS. It would say WAB.
7 MR. : Is that it?
8 MS. That was it.
9 MR. : Okay. So --
10 MS. : It would say WAB.
11 MR. : -- by it saying WAB, does
12 that mean that he's leaving and he's not
13 returning?
14 MS That is correct.
15 MR. : Okay. So, the people
16 that received this in the SHU, in the housing
17 unit that Efrain Reyes was staying in, they
18 would know this guy is leaving and not coming
19 back?
20 MS. Yes.
21 MR. : Okay.
22 MS. Well, let me not say they
23 would know. They just know it says WAB. I'm
24 not sure if they know what those acronyms
25 stands for. They just know that he's on a call
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1 out, and that --
2 MR. If they know it means --
3 MS. he has to go down to R&D.
4 MR. -- if the people, let's
5 say that we know WAB means With All Belongings,
6 and we're supposed to give them everything that
7 they have, and send them on their way.
8 MS. Mm-hmm. That is correct.
9 MR. Shouldn't they know, at
10 that point, that they're leaving and not coming
11 back?
12 MS. They should know, yes.
13 MR. : Okay. Great. And since
14 we spoke, were you ever able to find that list
15 that you would have created to provide to the
16 SHU?
17 MS. IIIIIII We don't keep those.
18 MR. MATULEWICZ: They don't keep them?
19 Is it ever emailed?
20 MS. No.
21 MR. No. So --
22 MS. We didn't email those.
23 MR. : -- it's only --
24 MS. No.
25 MR. : -- created, printed out,
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1 and then, you said it's actually created in
2 Sentry, though?
3 MS. M: Mm-hmm.
4 MR. And how long is it
5 maintained in Sentry?
6 MS. : I believe 45 days.
7 MR. 45 days. So, there is no
8 There would be no way to actually obtain
9 that court list?
10 MS. a I'm not sure.
11 MR. : Okay. But it is called
12 the -.
13 MS. : I don't want to say yeah, and
14 I don't want to say no. I'm not sure.
15 MR. Okay. But there's no
16 way, that you know of, to obtain that court
17 list?
18 MS. Right.
19 MR. And that's what it's
20 called? A court list? Or is it called
21 MS. A call out.
22 MR. -- it's called a call out
23 list?
24 MS. Mm-hmm.
25 MR. Okay. So, it's not
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1 actually called a court list.
2 MS. Right.
3 MR. Okay. Call out list.
4 MS. Because normally, what we do
5 is, we go back in the night, like, if I have to
6 do a new call list for the next day, I delete
7 the previous call list, because then you'll
8 keep having call lists. So, we go in, we
9 delete it, and we do the next one for the next
10 day.
11 MR. Okay. Gotcha.
12 MS. So, I don't even know if
13 they're maintained, how they're maintained in
14 the system. If they're even stored in the
15 system.
16 MR. : Okay.
17 MS. After that. I don't know.
18 MR. All right. So, they may
19 only be stored for that 24-hour period, until
20 you do your next list.
21 MS. Right.
22 MR. Okay.
23 MS. Because we're supposed to go
24 in and delete the call out. And then, for the
25 next day, like say, for example, tonight, I
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1 will be deleting today's call out, and I will
2 be entering tomorrow's call out.
3 MR. Okay.
4 MS. So, that's how it's supposed
5 to be done.
6 MR. Perfect. All right.
7 Great. Do you mind just initialing and dating
8 those --
9 MS. Mm-hmm.
10 MR. -- just so we have them?
11 It's not certifying the accuracy. It's simply
12 saying that that's what you reviewed.
13 MS. Mm-hmm.
14 MR. And you can go on, and
15 the date is 8/5/21.
16 MS. Okay. Okay. Okay.
17 MR. Thank you.
18 MS. That's everything. Right?
19 MR. : Thank you so much. All
20 right. So, that covers Efrain Reyes. The next
21 one is going to be with regard to inmate
22 Fernandez. Do you recall us talking to you
23 about an inmate Fernandez? I know you worked in
24 control.
25 MS. No.
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1 MR. Oh, that's fine.
2 MS. We probably talked about it.
3 MR. We talked about a lot.
4 So, this is just to refresh your memory. It
5 shows that you worked at the MCC on Saturday,
6 August 10th, 2019. This is the daily
7 assignment roster.
8 MS._: Mm-hmm.
9 MR. It shows that you were
10 control number one.
11 MS. Mm-hmm.
12 MR. Working overtime from
13 midnight to 8:00 a.m.?
14 MS. That is correct.
15 MR. Is that -? Okay. Great.
16 And then, when you were in control one, are you
17 the only person in control, at that time?
18 MS. No.
19 MR. Okay.
20 MS. I have a control two. Okay.
21 Wait a minute.
22 MR. And I'll -.
23 MS. I know was there with
24 me.
25 MR. So, internal would be
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1 actually with you?
2 MS. That number two was - would
3 be in control with me.
4 MR. Okay. So, that's how it
5 went. Okay.
6 MS. At that time, the number two.
7 They normally they didn't have an internal
8 number two, but that person is the person that
9 was in there with me because, at that time,
10 when they would put the internal number two on
11 the roster, they would be the person that would
12 assist the control center officer, in the
13 control. And they would do the counts, and
14 assignments, and do the - yeah - the counts.
15 The call outs. If somebody was on suicide
16 watch, and they had a companion swap out to
17 come out to a work detail, they would take that
18 companion off, put that new companion on, while
19 food service came and they would key in the
20 food service workers that would be off the
21 housing unit, but at that time, we only have -.
22 If we had anybody, it would be him.
23 MR. Okay.
24 MS. Yes. Yes.
25 MR. So - and you probably
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1 told me this before, then - so, would be
2 the one responsible for doing the counts, as
3 MS. Yes.
4 MR. -- as the second. And
5 what would your responsibility be?
6 MS. My responsibility was
7 ensuring all the equipment was in the control
8 center, doing a body alarm testing. What else?
9 Tracking all the equipment. Doing the
10 paperwork as far as the security forms,
11 (Indiscernible *00:13:37) security forms. And
12 looking up at cameras periodically. Popping
13 the doors.
14 MR. : Okay. But nothing to do
15 with counts?
16 MS. No.
17 MR. : Okay. Then this might
18 not be too relevant. All right. As far as the
19 last person we talked about during our last
20 interview was Fernandez, and we've since
21 learned, through our reviews, that Fernandez
22 was gone from the SHU around 1:40 p.m., and
23 definitely moved to R&D at least by 3:15.
24 MS. Oh, I recall that.
25 MR. Yeah.
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1 MS. Okay.
2 MR. Okay.
3 MS. I recall. Yes.
4 MR. So, were you able to -?
5 MS I didn't recall his name.
6 MR. I think you may have led
7 us onto this. I can't exactly remember. But
8 there's the inmate history quarters for inmate
9 Fernandez.
10 MS. Mm-hmm.
11 MR. And it shows that he was
12 in the SHU, put to the SHU on August 2nd, 2019,
13 and then, he was not keyed out of the SHU, and
14 put into his RO1. Does that stand for R&D?
15 MS. Mm-hmm.
16 MR. Okay. Until 8/10/2019,
17 at 12:35 a.m., on August 10th, 2019. Would
18 that have -. Would you be involved in that at
19 all?
20 MS. No.
21 MR. No? So, not with what you
22 were doing?
23 MS. Hmm-mm.
24 MR. Who has the ability to
25 keyep people in and out of the housing units.
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1 Does -?
2 MS. I mean, the control center
3 officers have the ability to do it. The
4 lieutenants, if they know. They have the
5 ability to do it. The SHU officers have the
6 ability to do it. And R&D has the ability to
7 do to it.
8 MR. Okay. So, there's
9 actually a number of people that could have
10 done that.
11 MS. Yeah.
12 MR. Okay. But that's not
13 something you would have done in your role?
14 MS. ANDREA: No. Hmm-mm.
15 MR. And you don't recall
16 doing that?
17 MS. No.
18 MR. Okay. Great. Do you
19 mind just -. And you're there -. Actually,
20 just initial and date these (Indiscernible
21 *00:15:19).
22 MS. Mm-hmm.
23 MR. So, in your expert
24 opinion, at that time, 12:35 a.m., who would
25 have been the one, then --
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1 MS. Well --
2 MR. : -- do you think, who
3 would have -?
4 MS. -- that would be the number
5 two person because he's --
6 MR. : If they did it from
7 control.
8 MS - right. Right. But if he
9 did it from control, because he would be
10 preparing the counts. Or it could have been
11 the SHU officer. I don't know.
12 MR. : Okay.
13 MS. : It could have been a number
14 of people.
15 MR. : Or it could have b—been
16 the Ops Lieutenant. Correct?
17 MS. Right.
18 MR. Okay. But it wasn't you?
19 MS. But normally, the Ops
20 Lieutenants, they don't do that. It's normally
21 the control, or the SHU officer. What is
22 today? The fifth?
23 MR. : And that's who would
24 normally do it? When an inmate is moved, it
25 would typically be control --
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1 MS.I Control.
2 MR. -- or the housing unit
3 officers?
4 MS. No. Not the housing unit
5 officer.
6 MR. Just the SHU?
7 MS. It would be the control.
8 MR. Oh, so, typically, it's
9 control?
10 MS. Control.
11 MR. : So, if -.
12 MS. : But if he's moving from an
13 area within SHU, like say one SHU bed to
14 another SHU bed, the SHU OIC would be making
15 the changes in the system, but this is one
16 location to another location. Like, physically
17 out of that unit. That probably, most likely,
18 at that time, and it might have been the
19 control.
20 MR. : Well, so, in this case,
21 that's not when he was moved. That's just when
22 it was caught. So, we believe that actually --
23 MS. Right.
24 MR. : -- the Ops Lieutenant did
25 that, because she's the one who figured it out.
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1 However, it sounds like, when he was moved at
2 approximately 3:00 p.m. the day before, August
3 9th, 2019, control should have been the one
4 MS. Mm-hmm.
5 MR. -- to do it. Is that
6 correct?
7 MS. Wait a minute.
8 MR. So, if he --
9 MS. Repeat that again.
10 MR. -- if he went from - at
11 about 3:00 p.m., he was moved from the SHU,
12 that was his housing unit, and placed into R&D
13 as his new housing unit --
14 MS. Right.
15 MR. : -- and placed on dry
16 cell, what with staff assigned to him, who
17 should have -?
18 MS. Control should have. The SHU
19 officer should have notified control, or
20 whoever was moving him, and put him there,
21 should have notified control this inmate moved
22 from so and so place, and is now placed here,
23 and the control center officer should have been
24 keying him at that location.
25 MR. So, the control should
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1 have done it?
2 MS. Mm-hmm.
3 MR. Perfect. Thank you.
4 MR. If the officer who actually
5 moved him actually wrote up a shot, also, for
6 moving him? Because if --
7 MS. : Say that again.
8 MR. : DO you know what a shot
9 is?
10 MS. Mm-hmm. An incident report.
11 MR. Incident report. Does that
12 mean that the officer was responsible for - o -
13 to make sure that the control was aware that
14 inmate was being moved?
15 MS. Well, whenever an inmate is
16 leaving your housing unit, going off your unit
17 completely, you should be notifying control,
18 and verifying your base count and your unit
19 count. So, that's what you should be doing.
20 MR. Well, what about in this
21 case? If the person was actually in visiting,
22 and the reason why he got the shot was because
23 the person that was visiting him provided him
24 contraband. From there, they took him
25 MS. Well, the unit officer might
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1 not necessarily know that, because somebody
2 would have to tell that unit officer this
3 person is being removed, going to SHU, because
4 they got drugs on the visiting floor. So, the
5 unit officer might not necessarily know that,
6 but -.
7 MR. : Well, let's say, in this
8 case, for instance, it was. It was actually
9 the person who found him, was the OIC of the
10 SHU, he's the one who saw what happened, and --
11 MS. Mm-hmm.
12 MR. -- actually is the one
13 who placed him onto the dry cell, and is the
14 one that wrote up the shot.
15 MS. I Oh, okay. Well then, he
16 should have just ben notifying control he's
17 going to dry cell. If it was dry cell within
18 the SHU, then he doesn't
19 MR. It was dry cell in R&D.
20 MS. right, but if it was in
21 SHU, he wouldn't have to notify nobody because
22 it's in SHU.
23 MR. Right.
24 MS. He would just make the bed
25 assignment change, but because he actually
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1 physically left the unit, he should have been
2 notifying the control center, I got one being
3 moved from SHU down to R&D for dry cell.
4 MR. Okay. So, he should have
5 notified control and said, key this person into
6
7 MS. Mm-hmm.
8 MR. : -- to R&D? Okay.
9 MS. Not just phyoically
10 specifically him, but anybody that was in the
11 SHU working that day should have just notified.
12 It's not, you know, because we all share the
13 same responsibility.
14 MR. : Okay. Perfect. Do you
15 mind just initialing and dating that --
16 MS. Mm-hmm.
17 MR. : -- then, the last --
18 MR. I'm sorry. I have a quick
19 question on the same thing.
20 MR. : Sure.
21 MR. How soon after you move an
22 inmate should that update be done?
23 MS. Immediately.
24 MR. Why?
25 MS. Because if you got to do an
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1 emergency count, you've got to account for
2 where that person is.
3 MR. Now, let's say, if it wasn't
4 done immediately, what could happen to the
5 count?
6 MS. We have a bad count.
7 MR. =MI : Here you go. Keep those
8 together. Keep it in order. And then, the
9 last thing, I think -. Well, no, because
10 there's, like, two more. This one was the -
11 and you just said, would have been the one
12 responsible for the --
13 MS. Mm-hmm.
14 MR. -- the count. Correct?
15 MS. Mm-hmm.
16 MR. So, and I think we talked
17 about this already.
18 MS. Mm-hmm.
19 MR. But if you see, this ir
20 the count from 8/10/2019, it says it was
21 printed at 12:35, I guess, and then, it shows
22 _and I think this is
23 signature, as well. Right above It
24 says, "Good verbal" at 12:36 a.m. Count
25 cleared at 12:49 p.m. ZA, it says 72. RA, it
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1 says one. However, and again, I think - which
2 we already discussed in our last one - and
3 according to the ZA count slips, on the very
4 last page, it says 73.
5 MS. Mm-hmm.
6 MR. And it shows, M. Thomas
7 and Noel are the ones that signed it.
8 MS. Mm-hmm.
9 MR. : And it shows they signed
10 it at 12:01 a.m. And do you have any knowledge
11 or recollection of this being a bad count?
12 Being that the El says 72, and the count slip
13 said that, it said 73. And you don't --
14 MS. : No.
15 MR. -- no?
16 MS. Because normally, when
17 they're take - that's, like, the beginning of
18 the shift. So, normally, while they're taking
19 count, I'm in there, verifying keys, making
20 sure equipment is there, radios is there,
21 checking all - everything else. So, while
22 they're taking the count. So, I'm not
23 necessarily sitting right there, alongside
24 them, listening to what's going on.
25 MR. : Okay.
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1 MS. You know? So, no.
2 MR. And if the Ops Lieutenant
3 was t this time, I believe
4 that's her signature on top of Cale. If she's
5 taking that official count, where would that
6 count be -? Where would she be taking the
7 count?
8 MS. In the control center,
9 alongside the counting assignment Office,
10 alongside Cale.
11 MR. : Okay. And do you recall
12 that taking place that night, by chance?
13 MS. If the roster said she was
14 there, then she probably was there, but I don't
15 recall. I don't.
16 MR. Okay. But in order for
17 her to sign it, and for him to --
18 MS. She would have to be there.
19 MR. -- all right. And do you
20 know - this is pretty nice handwriting - do you
21 know if that would be handwriting, or
22 hers? Can you really tell by that?
23 MS. IIIIIII I know this is
24 don't know whose writing this is.
25 MR. : Okay. But that is
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1
2 MS. : This is his right here, yeah.
3 MR. Okay. Perfect. And you
4 don't -. And do you recall ever
5 getting on the phone, though, with the SHU,
6 regarding this count?
7 MS. No.
8 MR. : No. That's fine. Do you
9 mind just initialing --
10 MS. Mm-hmm.
11 MR. -- and dating it.
12 MS. Now, that, I don't. Are you
13 taking this? Okay.
14 MR. : And then, this. Can you
15 just explain to us what we're looking at here?
16 What is this document?
17 MS. Okay. This is an,
18 (Indizecrnible +00:22:20)on the evening watch
19 shift, t. The control center, the control
20 number one person is responsible for accounting
21 for all the keys. So, you go through every
22 key, count the keys, make sure Al has 17 keys.
23 And that's what this is. So, each key, you're
24 accounting for the amount of keys on the
25 keyring. So, that's what this is.
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1 MR. : Okay. So, when people go
2 in and out of the institution, they get keys.
3 Is that what it is?
4 MS. No. At the end of the night,
5 at the end of the night, on the evening shift,
6 you got to account for all the equipment, and
7 that's the - to make sure those keys are there,
8 and that those keys have this many -. Let me
9 not say that, like that. Account for all the
10 keys on the keyring. The keyring might say Al,
11 five keys. So, there's a chit on the keyring
12 that says five. So, you have to make sure five
13 keys is on that keyring.
14 MR. : Okay. So, it's kind of,
15 like, it's for equipment, though? Not for
16 people?
17 MS No. That's for equipment.
18 MR. Okay. And is there also
19 one, though, for people?
20 MS. There's one for people. To
21 make sure who's on duty?
22 MR. Yeah. So, like, I've
23 been in other institutions where they have
24 these, you know, the little rings that, if they
25 go in or out of the institution, they grab
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1 their chip, or they put it back on
2 MS. It's a chit board. We have a
3 chit board here.
4 MR. : -- okay. So, that's not
5 this, though?
6 MS. No.
7 MR. This has to do
8 specifically with equipment, if you take a
9 piece of equipment, then you take the chip to
10 go with it?
11 MS.: No. That has to do
12 specifically, with accountability for keys.
13 Meaning, Al has 18 keys. So, if the chit on
14 the keyring says 18, you're supposed to have 18
15 keys. So, if lock shop came and changed the
16 keys, and took one key off or added a key, that
17 key count would be different. It would be
18 another number for that key. So, you're
19 verifying. That's basically just verification
20 and accountability that this is how ever many
21 keys we have on that keyring.
22 MR. : Okay. So, this is just
23 showing what keys, and if they're actual keys,
24 and the accountability of those keys.
25 MS. Right. And how many keys is
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1 on that ring.
2 MR. All right. That was your
3 question. Did you want anything more on that?
4 MR. With this showc SHU, any keys
5 belonging to the SHU? And let's say if the
6 count was off, would it be reflected was off,
7 would it be reflected in there?
8 MS. No.
9 MR. (Indiscernible *00:24:40)
10 manner?
11 MR. Would this have anything
12 to do with the count?
13 MS. This doesn't have anything to
14 do with the count. This is just equipment.
15 MR. No, no. I mean, the count
16 for the keys, the number of keys. And let's
17 say the number of keys on that ring, and
18 (Indiscernible *00:24:51) -.
19 MS. No, because what the control
20 center officer does is, on the evening watch
21 shift, whatever keys is not in the control
22 center, he'll call up to the unit as he's doing
23 - as he's testing body alarms, he'll say, what
24 keys do you have? You'll say, oh, I have
25 Charlie nine, and with what. And he'll tell
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1 you, you'll say, I have Charlie nine with five
2 or whatever amount of keys you have, and he'll
3 write that down. And then, the lieutenant will
4 go over this at night, and verify the key count
5 is accurate.
6 MR. Is there a count in there for
7 the SHU keys?
8 MR. : Well, this isn't the
9 count. It's not 8/10.
10 MR. Yeah.
11 MS. Mm-hmm.
12 MR. I just want to know if there
13 is specifically addressesd iscuc SHU keys,
14 that's all.
15 MR. : Okay.
16 MS. : This is the whole
17 institution's keys. So, yeah. SHU keys would
18 be here, too. Yes.
19 MR. What would they be listed
20 under?
21 MS. The Charlie keys.
22 MR. Do you know which Charlies?
23 MS. Hmm.
24 MR. So, the C's?
25 MS.
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