At the same time, the report determined «basic security functions» were not being followed at the North Country prison, including
a failure by corrections officers at the front gate to search employees» bag entering the prison, nightly counts of inmates not being conducted at the times, searches of cells that were deemed inadequate and the poor supervisor of inmates by employees and security stagff.
On Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted
by a pair of state
corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged
failure to abide
by restitution order imposed
by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larceny.