Guard shouldn’t have given prisoner address

I am an inmate at the Linn County Correctional Center jail. A few other inmates and I read your article in the June 15 Gazette regarding the inmate at the Iowa Classification Center, Oakdale. He is mentally ill and reportedly got coerced by another inmate who said he would have better mental treatment in federal prison. It is bad enough that this other inmate apparently talked him into this, which is wrong. We think this inmate needs some treatment also.

But in the long run what is even worse is the guard who helped this inmate out by giving him the address of a U.S. Marshall in Alabama. We think this guard should be fired and imprisoned as well. Because he is an accessory to the crime.

I am sure we are not the only ones who are thinking this way, and just because we are locked up, I am sure people think we are wrong for thinking this way. The public thinks we have bad outlooks at guards or correctional centers, which I agree some inmates do, but not all of us think that way.

What happened was morally wrong by the guard. That letter should have been turned over to the warden or the highest official there. There should have never been any help from the guard.

Scott Morrissey

Cedar Rapids