Shackled and handcuffed, Andre was led out of the observation cell with a guard on each of his arms and four guards behind them. There was also the SHU lieutenant and captain. One of the four guards had a camcorder rolling to capture any false moves of the prisoner. The officers were thirsty and prepared to take Andre down with force. They were buzzed through two security doors and walked into an open space with four elevators. One of them was open with two guards in front of it.
Andre was loaded onto the elevator and made to face the back. Although no other inmates were out, Kareem was not allowed to face the outside of the elevator because the captain feared that he would send a signal to someone. The sad part was that the captain knew that a staff member could have been compromised as evidenced by all of the cell phones popping up in the prison. Therefore, he definitely needed Andre facing the back of the elevator.
The elevator door closed and the elevator went down to the 7th floor. It opened and the high ranking officer stepped off first, followed by the back-up officers, and then the two that were directly attached to Andre. They were buzzed through one security door, and was in the 7th floor foyer, which separate units 7-North and 7-South. There were two psychiatrist offices and a nurse station in the foyer. They approached the outside of 7S and rang a loud bell. The unit officer opened the block’s door and found a crowd at the door.
Officer Stanford, the unit CO said, “The unit is locking down to move him through to the back without incident. I was just told that he was coming down here.”
The lieutenant asked, “Why aren’t they locked down along with the rest of the jail?”
“From what I was told they did not participate in the riot, if that’s what it was, so they were exempt. This is the psych unit and many of them were too heavily sedated with psychotropic medications to participate in such an event,” the captain said to clear up any reasons why 7S was not on lock down. It was his jail and he could do what he wanted.
“Yes give me one second to lock all of the cell doors, so that you can move him through the unit to the back secured psyche observation rooms,” Officer Stanford said and stepped back onto the unit. He locked the door behind him and began to secure the cells of the inmates.