After Facebook, 3 prison guards out of jobs

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100318/NEWS97/100319558/1009#after-facebook-guards-out-of-jobs

Published Thursday March 18, 2010

By Paul Hammel
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — Three Nebraska corrections officers who posted comments on a Facebook page about roughing up inmates no longer work for the Nebraska Department of Corrections.

In a press release Thursday, State Corrections Director Bob Houston said that while there had been no finding that the three guards abused prisoners, such comments were inappropriate for corrections officers.

The World-Herald first reported this story last month after former State Sen. Ernie Chambers received an anonymous tip about the postings on the Internet social-networking site from corrections officer Caleb Bartels.

Bartels' Facebook page featured a comment from him stating that a “good day is getting to smash an inmates face into the ground. . . . for me today was a VERY good day.”

Supportive comments were then posted by Shawn Paulson and Derek Dickey, who also were state corrections officers.

The department said that due to confidentiality rules about personnel actions, they could not say if the guards were fired or resigned.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. sounds like Ernie's still getting stuff done, even if he's no longer in

the Unicam.

Truth to power.