RESPONSE TO DEPUTY PRICE
Cassi McDaniel
 

Monday, September 13, 2004

KayLee
I have thought all weekend about this letter from our deputy. His responses are really and truly unsettling.

You made a comment about where there is smoke there is fire, basically saying that the inmates are screaming that the jailors are causing fire. He reimbursed your statement by saying, "I've found that when dealing with people on the wrong side of the criminal justice system that when you get through the smoke, the accused is the cause of the fire."  In this case, isn't the accused the jailors??????

Then he rambles on about a guy saying he had nothing in his pockets, he found it to be a lie because of a pocket knife? Most men carry a pocket knives in their pockets, everyday of their life; to those men a pocket knife is not anything dangerous - It would be the same as having loose change. If I was asked if I had anything in my pockets I might respond no to something so common.  Who ever thinks about the things like that? If he found a quarter would he still think of that man as a liar?

Why would Stevens County house people who are acting out violently in a drunk tank? If someone is violent wouldn't they be put in a solitary type situation for days to calm down? The drunk tank does not have beds, only a bench. Even so, what if there are violent people in the tank, then what are they doing with the drunks? Putting them in general population DRUNK......

Let me get this right... There was an inmate who broke his back in 3 places.  Was that provoked? What about the inmate who broke his collar bone?  Was that provoked?

Better yet, let's just throw all of that out.  What I really am confused about is, if the jail thinks that it is a self-provoked injury, is he saying that they REFUSE medical care for those situations?

To use a case scenario of inmates lying for just something to do, and compare it to a man and a woman breaking up their relationship, let me tell you what I know A LOT of women and NONE of them ever behaved that way. I am sure some may have, but certainly not all. It is not only women that behave like that. My ex-husband broke into my house when I filed for divorce and stole my gun, perfume, soap, shampoo, conditioner, ALL my underwear, and jewelry.

Sounds like "Deputy " Price also has several issues with women, I HOPE he is not in the women's facility. How can he compare a lie to a psychotic, stalking suicidal woman?

It is sad that he is trying to make the jail sound soooooooo good by hiring a physician's assistant, when it was ordered for them to do it a long time ago. It was Treva from Don Garrison's office who ordered Steven's county to get this handled awhile back. Why is it
they didn't do it when it was ordered for them to do?

Then again you have to wonder if one is hired, will they see things the same way the jailors do and refuse the inmates help, or is Steven's count scared the physicians assistant WON'T see it their way and she could help bring them down.....

Like I stated, there is soooooo much that disturbs me in the deputy's statements. I just don't understand how someone this hostile against human life, (and yes it is very obvious in his emails that he is hostile ) could even justify to his own self, why he works with, stereo typically speaking, "the most difficult kind of people there is".

Cassi McDaniel
cassimc@msn.com

DEPUTY'S RESPONSE TO CASSI MCDANIEL

LT GOVERNOR STATE OF OKLAHOMA
carolyn.pickthorn@ltgov.state.ok.us