Probation officer gives office BJ to boot-camp teen
Jailers Vernon Wilson, Valeria Jackson Indicted for Having Inmates Beaten
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 2:51 pm
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Yet it seems the unemployed construction worker didn't make for a model prisoner. He complained about conditions in the Washington County facility, which is about 50 miles outside of St. Louis. He also made the mistake of getting into a beef with guard Valeria Jackson, who happens to be the daughter of chief jailer Vernon Wilson.
Gieselman apparently called Jackson a name. So she decided to take revenge -- by encouraging other inmates to kick Gieselman's ass.
He was placed in a cell with five other inmates. All he remembers is being jumped from behind, hearing a crack in his head, then waking up in the hospital. Inmates Christopher Wallace (pictured above) and Lanny Parks were eventually convicted in the attack, which left Gieselman disfigured and with blurred vision. But the convicts also ratted out guard Jackson and chief jailer Wilson.
In a rare moment, federal prosecutors actually believed the inmates. They contend that Wilson and Jackson ordered beatings of inmates. The enforcers were rewarded with cigs as payment.
The cons say they were never expressly told to beat someone; it was all done by innuendo. "It was kind of implied with a grin and a smile," Wallace told the Associated Press. "His daughter came in and made the statement, 'I don't smell smoke yet,' because they gave cigarettes as a reward."
Wilson was indicted in July, and his pleaded not guilty to civil right violations and lying to the FBI. Last December, he pleaded guilty in another case where he slammed two inmates' heads into concrete walls, but got just an 180-day suspended sentence.
His daughter Jackson has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice, and has confessed that her father used an inmate as an enforcer.
It seems Washington County also admits that it had a problem with its jail. Since a new sheriff was elected last year, only three employees remain from the previous sheriff in the 43-person department. Both Wilson and Jackson have departed.
So what do you think, dear reader? It's one thing to seek vigilante justice on a child pornographer. But isn't it quite another when we're disfiguring guys whose only crimes are whining and writing bad checks?
See our last tale of inmate vigilantes: Nicholas Pinto, Beaten Into a Coma, Shows What Life is Like for a Child Pornographer Behind Bars.
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