Former Hattieville inmate claims abuse by electric shock
On August thirty-first of last year eighteen year old Lisa Lauriano was charged with attempted murder, grievous harm, and deadly means of harm following a report that the young woman had stabbed her boyfriend’s daughter in the eye during a misunderstanding. Lauriano was offered bail in the amount of three thousand dollars plus a surety of the same amount. And while that bail was met the man who put it up changed his mind and Lauriano was subsequently remanded to prison. This morning Lauriano appeared in Magistrate’s Court where the charges were withdrawn and replaced with a single charge of wounding. Represented by attorney Dickie Bradley, Lauriano pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined four hundred dollars to be paid by March thirty-first. Following her release, Lauriano visited News Five to complain about the abuse and mistreatment she claims occurred while she was incarcerated. According to Lauriano, almost two months into her stay, she was punished with electric shocks by at least three senior prison officers, one of whom was a female. Lauriano says following a misunderstanding she had with one of the woman prison guards, she and another inmate were sent to isolation and later taken to an office where the alleged abuse occurred.
Lisa Lauriano, Claims Prison Abuse
?Me and a female officer we ketch in a wah lee misunderstanding, right, due to weh she tell me if I dah mi something I nevah mi weh deh dah jail, so they lock me down. So when they lock me down and put me in ?Isola? they send for three high officers, right … and when they come they just start shock we up and dah mi me and a next young lady.?
?They shock up we and they handcuff fi we hand back a fi we back and shove we in a di place; that dah mi the first time. Then the next time, Friday weh just gone right yah so, they ker we up dah di high boss office, right, and when they ker we up deh so they handcuff fi we hand back a fi we back and they shock up we?and dah bout six a them. They hold we down and the boss lady she put fi she foot inna my face like this and hold down my head and mek them shock up me inna my neck and my face. See my neck still got some marks and thing and my belly and thing still got dark spots and thing right. And they handcuff my hand, fi we two hand, back a fi we back tight, tight, tight and when we done, my bone yah so swell up, swell up, and my hand. And right up to now when I touch by yah so I could feel like wah shock run in my five fingers them, right.?
?We mi just done bathe and my head mi wet, so the water di drip of my neck and thing, so they just hold we down and shock we because I feel it more too. And when we done from deh I mi feel kinda dizzy, like I can?t even walk straight when they done shock up we and dem thing deh.?
?I just want say that no right and I young too and I know that I do something wrong fi deh dah jail, you know. Everybody makes mistakes and thing you know. But then I noh think I mi deserve dah kinda treatment deh as wah young lady, female, you know fi get shock up in your body and that could tell pan you later on.?
The allegations are also under investigation by the Ombudsman. When News Five contacted the Kolbe Foundation for comment the person we needed to speak to was out of the office, but we were told that they would get back in touch with us. Up to news time we were still waiting for that phone call.
