Officials at the Marcy Psychiatric Center say an inmate patient tried to escape the facility on Tuesday.

The inmate, who had recently been transferred from the Clinton Correctional Facility was in an outside yard when he climbed over an interior fence before being stopped as he was headed for two other razor wire fences.

A response team was able to subdue the patient and he was escorted back into the building without additional incident.

The escape attempt comes just days after five Secure Hospital Treatment Assistants were assaulted at the facility, a fact that NYSCOPBA, says highlights the need for more staff, better security measures and technology to improve staff safety and security of the facility.

NYSCOPBA issued the following statement:

“For the past two years, our membership has stressed the need for more staffing and better security measures at our four forensic psychiatric facilities. Our Security Hospital Treatment Assistants and Safety & Security Officers are attacked and assaulted on a daily basis and the Office of Mental Health has failed to address the increasingly dangerous situation. Our concerns and suggestions continue to fall on deaf ears with the commissioner and there is a total disregard for public and staff safety. In 2014, there were two escape attempts that OMH never reported and clearly tried to hide from the public."
Our members continue to do their job with the utmost professionalism under this adversity. They have been seriously assaulted and permanently injured by a population that includes more violent criminals transferred in from Department of Corrections & Community Supervision (DOCCS) than ever before. The staff presently is not equipped to deal with the increase in violence and OMH needs to address this immediately before another escape attempt is successful”, said John Harmon, Vice President of Law Enforcement for NYSCOPBA.

Central New York is one of four statewide forensic psychiatric facilities that house inmates from prisons and jails in New York.

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