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   PHOENIX –  A teacher at an Arizona prison was alone in a room   
   full of sex offenders before being stabbed and sexually   
   assaulted by a convicted rapist, according to documents obtained   
   by The Associated Press about an attack that highlighted major   
   security lapses at the facility.   
      
   The attack occurred Jan. 30 at the Eyman prison's Meadows Unit,   
   which houses about 1,300 rapists, child molesters and other sex   
   offenders. The teacher was administering a high school   
   equivalency test to about a half-dozen inmates in a classroom   
   with no guard nearby and only a radio to summon help. The   
   Department of Corrections issued only a bare-bones press release   
   after the attack, but the AP pieced together what happened based   
   on interviews and investigatory reports obtained under the   
   Arizona Public Records Act.   
      
   After the last of the other inmates left, Jacob Harvey asked the   
   teacher if she could open the bathroom and then attacked her,   
   records show. Harvey is accused of stabbing her in the head with   
   a pen, forcing her to the ground and raping her.   
      
   The teacher told investigators that she screamed for help, but   
   none came. Afterward, Harvey tried to use her radio to call for   
   help. It had apparently been changed to a channel the unit's   
   guards didn't use, so Harvey let the woman use a phone,   
   according to the reports.   
      
   Carl ToersBijns, a former deputy warden at the prison, said the   
   assault highlights chronic understaffing and lax security   
   policies that put staff members at risk.   
      
   "Here you've got a guy that commits a hell of a crime ... and   
   he's put into an environment that actually gives him an   
   opportunity to do his criminality because of a lack of   
   staffing," said ToersBijns, who was deputy warden at the Eyman   
   prison in Florence until retiring in 2010 and oversaw the   
   Meadows Unit for 19 months.   
      
   State prison officials, however, dismiss the concerns. They say   
   the assault at the prison about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix is   
   a risk that comes with the job of overseeing violent prison   
   inmates.   
      
   Harvey was in the first year of a 30-year sentence for raping a   
   Glendale woman in November 2011. Just 17 at the time, he had   
   knocked on the woman's door in the middle of the day, asked for   
   a drink of water, then forced his way inside, where he   
   repeatedly raped and beat her while her 2-year-old child was in   
   the apartment. He fled naked when the woman's roommate arrived   
   home.   
      
   He was arrested after DNA evidence connected him to the crime,   
   and he pleaded guilty.   
      
   Harvey was initially classified as a "Class 4" security risk,   
   one notch lower than the highest level. Six months later,   
   despite violating prison rules at least once, he was   
   reclassified at a lower level.   
      
   Department of Corrections spokesman Doug Nick said classrooms at   
   prisons across the state are having cameras installed. But he   
   said no administrative investigation was launched because there   
   was no need, and no one was disciplined. He said all prisons are   
   dangerous places and staff are trained accordingly.   
      
   "This is an assault that reflects the fact that inmates in our   
   system often act out violently, and it is the inmate suspect who   
   is responsible for this despicable act," he said.   
      
   Nick also said that not having a guard in classrooms or nearby   
   "follows accepted corrections practices nationwide."   
      
   That's not the case, said Carolyn Eggleston, a professor at   
   California State University, San Bernardino, who started her   
   career as a prison teacher in several states and now is director   
   of the university's Correctional and Alternative Education   
   Program.   
      
   "I have to say, I don't find that consistent with standards,"   
   Eggleston said. "In a sex offender unit, especially, they should   
   be counting the people leaving the classroom. They just should.   
   And there should be somebody, not in the class ... but there   
   should be somebody in proximity so they can help monitor that."   
      
   The woman, who was not critically injured, has filed a worker's   
   compensation claim against the state and did not want to comment   
   on case. The AP does not usually identify sexual assault victims.   
      
   Internal emails obtained by the AP show that prisons Director   
   Charles Ryan ordered all non-corrections officer staff at   
   prisons statewide to be issued pepper spray and trained in its   
   use just days after the attack. And an internal memo sent the   
   day after the assault ordered guards at a nearby prison to begin   
   checking on civilian staff every hour.   
      
   Nick said the pepper-spray order was in the works before the   
   assault. And he said that, despite the internal memo from a   
   major that ordered hourly checks, the actual practice is   
   unpredictable and more frequent, with staggered checks three   
   times an hour.   
      
   ToersBijns, who is an advocate for prison safety and believes   
   understaffing has put state prison staff at risk, said multiple   
   errors likely led to the assault, including not having video   
   cameras in the classroom, a lack of checks on civilian staff and   
   use of an outdated classification system for inmates that led to   
   a violent predator being misidentified as a relatively low-level   
   threat.   
      
   After the attack, Harvey was calm when confronted in the   
   classroom, refused to talk to investigators and asked for a   
   lawyer. He was charged last month with sexual assault,   
   kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. A public defender   
   was appointed, and he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. The   
   public defender assigned to his case, Paula Cook, declined to   
   comment.   
      
   Harvey was convicted in a prison administrative hearing of   
   sexually assaulting the staff member. Three weeks after the   
   rape, he assaulted another prison employee, although records   
   don't show any details. His security classification was raised   
   two levels, to the highest, nearly three months after the   
   teacher was assaulted.   
      
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