The correctional officer on duty came running to the cell, realized that the door was jammed and immediately called on his radio for help,

Absolutely. No question about that ... He looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize.

This is a dastardly crime as far as I'm concerned...It's the type of cruelty we absolutely have to send a message on, ... This is just not acceptable in this jurisdiction.

This office is going to prosecute this type of crime to the full extent of the law,

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

has a longstanding phobia, it appears, towards homosexuals of any kind. I'm not a psychologist and I'm not a psychiatrist, but I would say that he's filled with longstanding hate.

Whether or not these are violations of policy and whether they cry out for more personnel or not I think are something we're going to have to look into,