17 Quotes by Russ Marlan

We're investigating what happened and why. Apparently they went there as an act of protest and were not going to leave.

We were aware of that opinion and thought it was being applied. That is certainly part of our investigation.

What we're examining in this investigation is if there were alternatives to automatically releasing him.

Obviously, he wasn't an outstanding prisoner. That's why he was denied parole four times, but there's certainly nothing about his conduct (in prison) to indicate torture and murder.

We're obviously looking into the circumstances surrounding this, what the prisoners' purpose was and what exactly happened. It was an apparent act of protest.

We're taking this very seriously. From the outset the (department) director (Patricia Caruso) has been clear that she wants this to be done as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. We have made the problem a top priority.

We will definitely extradite him back once hes healed up from his injuries and dealt with his charges there. Hes still an escaped prisoner from our area.

We believe our employees in that unit were aware of that Supreme Court decision.

There's not a shred of truth to that.