Brace yourselves for this one, Sleuthers.
Williams greeted by head of Kingston Pen
By JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: October 23, 2010 1:09am
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - The disgraced ‘Killer Colonel’ was not even sentenced to life in prison for one hour and it appears he was already getting special treatment.
Sources tell me upon arriving at Kingston Penitentiary Thursday the low-life Russell Williams was given the VIP welcome.
“The new warden of KP (Jay Pyke) was on hand to meet Williams immediately upon his arrival,” said an insider.
Wonder what they talked about? High level warden to colonel, commanding officer stuff I guess. Above our pay grade. Any autographs?
“This is completely unheard of in any federal penitentiary or institution,” said an outraged insider. “Any federally incarcerated inmate who arrives at any prison is never met by a warden.”
If this did happen Williams, who rubbed noses with the Queen, prime ministers and some of the country’s most powerful figures, now has high level contacts his fellow inmates don’t have.
The source said “inmates are always processed through admissions by correctional officers, may go and see a Correctional supervisor in extreme cases, and escorted to their unit/cell. But not in this case. Special attention for this guy already?”
First he gets paid, then gets to keep his pension and severance pay, gets away without having a dangerous offender hearing that would solidify his life in prison (who is more dangerous?) and now gets to rub shoulders with the commanding officer of his new unit?
He was also greeted by a special psychologist (not an on-staff KP psychologist, either) as well — also unheard of for new arrivals. [Snip>]
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/10/22/15798236.html
There's a lot more in this article; seems Journalist Warmington is grinding his teeth about many of the issues we've discussed here.