Monroe prison guards want multiple killer in chains

BY Tim Haeck  on December 13, 2012 @ 7:31 am (Updated: 7:50 am - 12/13/12 )

Prison guards are upset that a Skagit County man who killed six people in 2008 is able move without restraints while outside his maximum security cell.

Last week, Isaac Zamora was transferred from Western State Hospital to a maximum security wing at Monroe Correctional Center.

Officially, Zamora is still considered a patient, not a prisoner and under the control of the state Department of Social and Health Services. Corrections officers are told not to restrain him at times when prisoners in the same prison wing are put in wrist and leg chains.

Q13 Fox reports that guards complain they are in danger.

Zamora pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity following a shooting spree four years ago in which six people were killed and two others wounded.

A prison spokesman concedes that Zamora is treated differently but points out that so far he has not been a problem.

Tim Haeck, KIRO Radio Reporter
Tim Haeck is a news reporter with KIRO Radio. While Tim is one of our go-to, no-nonsense reporters, he also has a sensationally dry sense of humor and it will surprise some to learn he is a weekend warrior.
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  • TYR wrote...
    DSHS
    December 13, 2012 7:21 am
    Inmates running the asylum.
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  • Siriusly wrote...
    TYR
    December 13, 2012 3:47 pm
    I'm reporting your comment as hilariously accurate.
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  • William P wrote...
    DSHS Oversight
    December 13, 2012 8:33 am
    DSHS has a history of not having control over much of anything. Recently, $11M awarded to wards of the state due to unvetted abuse while under DSHS. Another of many cases in the past decade where this state agency has cost taxpayers $50M because of their lack of oversight
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