Thursday, July 24, 2008
Speaker of the House Jim Amann formed a task force today to review health and security issues in state prisons.
He may get some added support for his gubernatorial exploration too, but the Blogster doesn’t want to question his motives, which were more likely provoked by a recent stare-down he had with an inmate at the bad-ass super-max Northern Correctional Institution.
Amann, D-Milford, admits he lost to a look of “evil” that an inmate gave him from behind a cell door during his recent tour with other lawmakers. “I couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there,” Amann said.
During his news conference this morning, the speaker recalled a late-1970s-era spring break in Florida, which he hinted as life changing.
“I was down once in Fort Lauderdale and my uncle was a correctional officer and brought me through,” Amann said. “He probably took me through there first making sure that I didn’t want to end up there at night.”