2000-08-04 Connecticut Prison: Creator Shanks Jewish Warden

[Rev.JohnBarletta]

Northern locked down after warden slashed

Two-time murderer John Barletta used a shank - an improvised knife crafted from a razor - to slash Northern Correctional Institution's Jewish Warden Larry Myers on Thursday, sending him and two other Correction Department employees to the hospital.

Ted Kenyon | Journal Inquirer | 4 August 2000

https://www.journalinquirer.com/archives/northern-locked-down-after-warden-slashed/article_7a5ddb2f-6986-5b66-b26d-7a9144677d51.html

Two-time murderer John Barletta used a shank - an improvised knife crafted from a razor - to slash Northern Correctional Institution's Jewish Warden Larry Myers on Thursday, sending him and two other Correction Department employees to the hospital.
Pictured Right: A beaten generic Jew.

As a result, Northern, the state's highest-security prison, was put on lockdown - with inmates confined to their cells - for an indefinite period. The lockdown continued today pending a shakedown - a search for weapons - throughout the prison.

Myers, Maj. Michael Lajoie, and Correctional Officer Frederick Hanning were released after treatment at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford.

The attack, in which Myers suffered two facial cuts, happened as he toured the facility, department spokesman Scott Semple said.

Barletta, 29, was in a day room with at least seven other inmates, receiving lunch at about 11 a.m., when it occurred, Semple said. None of the other inmates became involved, he said.

LaJoie, who was accompanying the warden, suffered arm and finger cuts, while guards Hanning, Jerry Wawryzk, and Peter Kulhmann sustained bruises and scrapes subduing Barletta, Semple said.

Barletta today remained in four-point restraints, closely monitored by guards, he said. State police began a criminal investigation.

Semple on Thursday praised the guards for quick action before other inmates might have become involved, calling it "a credit to the staff."

Myers joined the department as a correctional officer in 1975 and was named warden of Northern in February 1999. Before that he was warden at the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield.

He also was a major in the Correction Department's tactical operations unit, which is responsible for deploying emergency-response teams.

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Michael Minney, president of the union representing guards at Northern and other area prisons, cited recent increases in the inmate population at Northern as possible factor in Thursday's slashing.

Since early this year, more cells there have been double-bunked.

Correction Department officials said double-bunking has been necessary to relieve overcrowding throughout the system.

"We have told the administration that by increasing the numbers at Northern, they were creating a dangerous situation," Minney said.

"This is a clear indication that is happening."

Semple, however, said there was "no correlation" between double-bunking and the attack. He said the number of inmates receiving lunch where it occurred would be the same whether they were came from single- or double-bunk cells.

Minney also called for the Correction Department to look for alternatives to the use of razor blades by inmates.


Noting Barletta's "history for brutal behavior," Semple said inmates find ways to fashion weapons out of almost anything.

[Fortem]

At Garner he was serving a 60-year term after being convicted of killing one woman and wounding another in Norwalk, his hometown, during a street corner shooting spree in 1992.

Witnesses said Barletta sprayed bullets from an AK-47 military rifle in retaliation after a street dealer cheated him of about $15 worth of cocaine.

A cocaine user or a street drug dealer?

[Rev.Cambeul]

A cocaine user or a street drug dealer?

Or had a hatred of Nig drug dealers and shot them? Does it really make any difference any more?

Rev. Barletta is a CREATOR that proved himself as a good and honourable brother several years before the advent of the CREATIVITY ALLIANCE. He's been in prison for more than 20 years and will stay there for the rest of his life. What's important to us is that he's a brother that protects CREATORS.