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date of birth (DOB) p■ aCe of emp■ oymentSpokane County JaiI, was interviewed at Spokane County JaiI, lL00 W. Mal.l-onAvenue, Spokane, Washington, mobile phone number of Alsopresent for the interview was ttre president of the Spokane County JailUnion, Tim Wirun. After being advised of the identity of the interviewingAgent and the nature of the interview, Iprovided the followinginformation:

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worked as a corrections officer at the spokane county Jairsince January 2009. She has primarily worked the graveyard shift for theIast four years. Recently she moved to swing shift. She is frequentlyrotated around because she is female and they are often short on femalecorrections officers.

On the night of August l-gth, 2015 and into the early mornings hours ofAugust 2oth, 2ot5t I was the only corrections officer assigned to workon the five east wing of the jail. As part of her regular duties sheconducted a head count shortly after her shift began. The head count was atabout 10:40 PM. She recalled nothing out of the ordinary.

I conducted rounds approximately every 30 minutes through thenight. When conducting rounds she walked up to every cell and checked eachof the inmates for signs of 1ife. She varied the times she conducted roundsslightly so that her movements would not become rote and easily timed oranticipated by the inmates.

There is a small television on the ground floor of five east. The Iayoutof the wing consists of two large open areas, each surrounded by two tiersof cell-s, a ground level tier and an upper tier. The cell doors have asmall narrow window which looks out into the open area of the groundfl-oor. Certain cells, mainly the cells in and around the corner on both

hvestigation on 09/03/2015 at Spokane ′ Washington′ United States (In Person)

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the first and second tier of cells, hawe a view of the television in themain open area from the ceII window. It was not uncommon for prisoners inthose celfs to stay up all night watching television.

James Henrickson and Bud Brown were housed i-n five east cell 33, whichwas situated near the corner of the second 1ewel tier of cel-Is. They had a

view of the tel-evision and on the night of August 19, 2015 when Ididher initial head count they were standing at their cell- window and appearedto be watching the televisicn.

Each time I conducted her head count, Henrickson or Brown werestanding in front of t,he cell- window watching television, which effectivelyobstructeo I view of the inside of their cell-. Ial-so notedthat from their vantage point they could look through thelr cel-I windowdown at where Isat on the main floor and woulc have known exactlywhen she was starting her rounds and when she walked to the other side ofthe wing.

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nothing out of the ordinary during her shift. She dj-d nothear any unusual- sounds from any of the cells, including 33. She noted thatwhen she did her rounds on the other side of the wing, it was far enoughaway that she woutd not have been able to hear or observe anythinghappening in Brown and Henrickson's cefl.

I is afforded two breaks during her shift. she took her first breaksometime between l-:30 and 2:00 AM and her second break around 3:45 AM to4:30 AM. Corrections office.

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rel-ieved her for both shifts.I returned from her second break at around 4:30 AM and after beingback for about one mj-nute, she was contacted on the radio and instructed tocheck the cel-ls near five east 30. She proceeded to check the cell-s andasked what exactly she was looking for. At that point she was told to checkfive east 33. She immediately checked the window of five east 33 and notedthat Henrj-ckson was standing there blocking her view into the celf. She

ordered Henrickson to move over. trVhen Henrickson stepped aside she saw

Brown sitting on a smal-I desk, grinning at her, and she saw a bed sheetrope tied to the bed and out the window. There were other officers on thefl-oor by that point and they cuffed Brown and Henrickson through the door.

I reiterated that she did notord-nary durinq her shift that night.window were found in cell 33 that shehave been purposely blocking her viewwatch television.

see or hear anything out of theIt was only after the rope and brokenreal-ized Brown and Henrickson mustinto their cell by pretending to

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