Guard who left her post in NYC hot cell death case has a history of walking away
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A Rikers Island jail guard who investigators say left her post without permission while a mentally ill inmate sweltered in a 101-degree cell in February had been disciplined four years earlier for doing the same thing, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Carol Lackner was accused in 2010 of leaving her post and leaving Rikers Island entirely without permission while working in a women's section of the jail, according to the documents obtained through a public records request.
That administrative charge was settled, her attorney says, when Lackner agreed to give up five vacation days. He said she was on a break when she left, which is nevertheless a policy violation.
More recently, Lackner was suspended for 30 days following the Feb. 15 death of 56-year-old Jerome Murdough. A city corrections investigation found she abandoned her post in a mental health observation unit 20 minutes before the homeless ex-Marine was discovered unresponsive in his overheated cell.
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