An Aramark meals assistance worker was shot and killed at Smith State Prison in Glennville on Sunday in an unusual violation of security.
The employee was shot while working in the incarceration house at 4:30 a.m., according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The criminal then shot himself, the GDC said, and was pronounced deceased at a nearby hospital.
The GDC has the weapon in its prison at this time, and a detailed and in-depth investigation of what caused this tragic event will be conducted, the GDC said in a statement.
Hart was sentenced to 20 times in Carroll County for deliberate manslaughter, with a maximum release time of June 2043, according to the GDC. According to published reports, Hart was convicted in the , deadly shooting of a Villa Rica person at a Memorial Day party , in 2013.
Georgia’s jails are riddled with violence and murders, but captives having guns is practically unheard of. No additional circumstance in which a prisoner killed a person inside a Georgia state prison has been identified in dying document records dating back to 2017, according to the AJC.
Additionally, this was the next jail employee’s death at Smith in a year. In October, custodial official  , Robert Clark, 42, was killed , after being assaulted by a slave with a homemade tool.
Smith is one of the country’s custodial system’s most overworked, violent, and destructive features, and the fact that a gun made its way inside the facility raises its issues to a whole new level.
First last year, Smith’s then- governor, Brian Adams,  , was arrested and fired , for being part of a large illegal scheme operating out of the prison. Adams was accused of breaking his oath as a public official, extortion, making or writing false claims, and violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. According to arrest warrants, Adams was accused of receiving American currency as part of a criminal plot connected to the illegal operation.
Because the majority of prisoners are viewed as vulnerable to leave, murder, or breaking the law, Smith is classified as a close-knit facility. Since the crisis, Georgia prison have had a significant understaffing. Particularly at Smith, where nearly two-thirds of its correctional officer roles were unfilled in January.
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