Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - August 30, 1989, Winslow, Arizona USPS 247-160 Postage Paid at Ariz. 86047 on Wednesdays and 9 Sections 1 1894 Volume 95 Number 57 Winslow, August 30, 1989 Copy 25 Bulges As 26 Inmates Arrive From Maricopa Chuck Ryan points to one of the mattresses laid out on the floor of a day room providing sleeping quarters for 26 inmates who were transferred from the Maricopa County Jail to the Winslow State Prison on The inmates were each issued a two a sheet and a by Mike At Winslow Prison Handled dispute early Thursday evening between two inmates in the Kaibab unit of the Winslow State Prison escalated to a potentially dangerous situation before order was restored and a lockdown of the entire institution was two men had quarrelled earlier in the day before they squared of again at about 6:10 p.m. Thursday at the weight lifting ramada in the prison according to Mike DOC administrative officer for While the two men were taunting each between 13 and 18 other inmates became involved with sides drawn based on the gang the original two participants actually exchanged blows with both men suffering minor cuts and according to No prison staff members were injured and there was no damage to any Dominiak the entire prison was locked down but the was lifted on the Coronado unit later that The Kaibab unit remained locked down until mid-day The participants in the disturbance were placed in the detention where five of them remained Monday pending a complete investigation of the Dominiak Male Arrested On Drug Charges Mexican national was arrested last Aug. 23, on drug charges following a lengthy investigation by the Winslow Police Department and the Navajo County Task under the direction of SgL Ramon Espinoza 35, of Hillo was charged with possession of a narcotic drug possession of a narcotic drug for sale and possession of drug had been staying at Econo exit 253 of 1-40, since Aug. 6. Surveillance was set up at the motel and information was obtained from concerned leading to Wagner in room at the time of his arrest was approximately worth of bagged in 3.5 gram known as 8 according to Another was also as were a semiautomatic ammunition and packaging reported appears as though Mr. Rojo planned on doing some business in Wagner pieces of expensive looking and money will be seized for under the state's racketeering was booked into the Winslow City Jail pending an initial appearance before Judge Johnny Butler of the Winslow Justice investigation should go further since a large amount of information on local users was found in the Wagner Police Department is encouraged by citizens who are taking an interest in narcotic activity in according to Mike Winslow State which was already filled beyond bulged a little more Saturday with the arrival of 26 inmates from the Maricopa County inmates who arrived today and those to follow are not assigned to a cell but a space on the Warden Chuck Ryan prison was designed to house 650 with the inmates being double as mandated by the legislature in 1983," Ryan people to a space on the floor of a day room is a risky community needs to be aware of the Ryan inmates were dispatched to Winslow following Thursday's ruling by Judge Michael Ryan of the Maricopa County Superior Court ordering the Arizona Department of Corrections to remove 313 inmates of whom arc classified as high medium it had been housing in the Maricopa County Ryan's ruling resulted from a lawsuit filed by Maricopa County Sheriff Tom Agnos felt that the overcrowding resulting from housing state inmates in the county jail was creating a dangerous first group of 25 inmates was sent to Alhambra Reception Center on The 313 inmates will be spread around the state prison system with inmates ticketed for Florence and in addition to Ryan said that he expected to receive more inmates this are prepared to take 50 increasing our capacity to more than 700," Ryan had 660 10 more than this prison was designed before the 26 inmates Ryan are having to assign these inmates to a space on the floor of an area that has no toilet we are having to vacate a cell to allow the inmates housed in the day room to have toilet This means placing two inmates who had on the floor of the day room with the new Ryan hope this is only a temporary solution to the overcrowding We hope the legislature will take action during a proposed special session and do something about bed Ryan you create temporary they tend to become Denny deputy warden of the Coronado was a proposal to expand the prison system by 1,450 beds during the last legislative session but the legislature failed to act on Ryan proposal would have placed an additional 400 medium security i in As for the legislature I considering that possibility I Ryan don't wish to I speculate on a 4CX) bed medium security addition in i Ryan mentioned that the ' Winslow prison has a 36 bed detention used for disciplinary but those beds do not count toward the facility's 650 bed When asked if the detention unit beds could be used by I the new Ryan solution is not playing of the Labor Day the deadline for our Sept. 6. edition of the newspaper will be at 10 a.m. this Sept 1. Thank you for your 22 Aug. 23 Aug. 24 Aug. 25 Aug. 26 Aug. 27 Aug. 28 87 86 86 88 88 59 55 54 51 Chuck Ryan points out medium security housing unit No. 2 where the 26 new arrivals are being housed in day four inmates are to each day room but that number will increase to eight to a room when additional inmates arrive some time this by Mike using the detention unit We need to keep those available in case of disciplinary only is the prison being overtaxed with the additional but no additional staffing will be Ryan will have to work people Everyone likes to get paid but those people will start to get they will need to Ryan could go on for he have three CSO vacancies at the present We have a very thin staff and this will make Ryan staff understands the seriousness of the situation and they are prepared to do what is Ryan overcrowding is also of great interest to the removing some of their precious freedom day rooms are generally used for social such as card playing and inmates are following this issue on a daily It will impact them as Ryan has compromised the other day additional inmates arc assigned to the Winslow prison this as they will have to be placed in the day rooms with the earlier will mean that we will have eight men assigned to 300 square feet of Ryan alluded to the expansion projects ai the Winslow prison but he noted that those beds would provide no relief for the present The 242 bed minimum security expansion is scheduled to be completed by February 1990 On Page 8 Hop! Scrimmage Winslow Offense Continued sunny and Wednesday through Daytime highs should be in the mid 80's with overnight readings in the mid 50's. Mike displayed a potent offense during Friday night's preseason scrimmage against Hopi High School at Bulldog Stadium but the coaching staff agreed defense still needs Rick charges scored three touchdowns and had a fourth nullified by a The defenders kept Hopi out of the end zone but the Bruins would have sewed at least once and maybe twice if pass receivers had not dropped Jarrett Huma's resulted on each of Winslow's first three possessions and the negated score came during the fourth during the 80 play controlled The teams alternated running 10 plays until they had each executed 40 quarterback Brandon Scott hit Darryl Aberle with a 25 yard scoring Scott set up the touchdown by scampering 29 yards on an option Cue plans to use the option as the team's primary second came on the first play of its second Tailback Quentin Hayes went off right broke a tackle and cut back to the middle of the field and tore away from three more defenders en route to a 60 yard scoring Hayes later added runs of 20 and 24 yards and drew the praise of Cue for his backs Devon Sawyer and Manny Perez also had runs in excess of 20 Sawyer's best effort was a 27 yard romp and Perez broke through the middle on one occasion and was brought down 21 yards registered Winslow's third touchdown on a six yard It came during the third Cunningham was at quarterback for the fourth possession and he teamed with Jeremy Chee for a 25 yard touchdown but it was called back because of an offsides standouts were Sawyer and Mark off an errant Huma Pollard had the only sack and Perez was in on numerous ranging sideline to thought the offense looked pretty good but we need some work on Cue was just trying to hit every hole and run some things we hadn't run he did a job running the defensive played with a makeshift We got our second string threw 37 Lee and Jimmy both of whom should see considerable action in the defensive were from the as were defensive linemen James Williams and Jamey Williams and Banh we got to see some second and third siring interior Bordner still not in Bordner will stress conditioning in the coming opens the regular season tomorrow night hosting Chinle in a Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 a half hour later than The later start time was established to accommodate Chinle which observes daylight savings running back Quentin Hayes ran well during Friday night's scrimmage against Hopi High including one scoring dash of 60 by Mike