January 30, 2011
Correctional Officer Found at Monroe Correctional Complex
MONROE – A correctional officer was found dead late Saturday night at Monroe Correctional Complex. An offender who was found earlier was taken to a segregation unit while Monroe police officers investigate.
The officer, Jayme Biendl, 34, had been with the Department of Corrections since 2002.
At about 9:14 p.m. the staff conducted a routine count of offenders inside the Washington State Reformatory Unit and discovered that an offender was missing. The offender was found three minutes later in chapel lobby and told officers he had planned to escape.
An hour later staff members completed an inventory of equipment and discovered that a correctional officer’s keys and radio were missing. Staff members immediately went to where she worked and found her unresponsive. The staff conducted CPR and called 911. Emergency responders declared the officer dead at the scene at 10:49 p.m.
Monroe Correctional Complex will be on a lockdown Sunday as local law enforcement continue to investigate.

Heard about this one from my family last night. Apparently there was a long paper trail of warnings that Biendls assignment was dangerous. They let a convicted rapist alone with a female. The guy served seven years of a life sentence before his third strike. This will end badly.

First, let me say that my heart goes out for her and her family - I'm sincerely saddened anytime someone is killed in the line of duty, and C/O Biendl deserves full honors.   This guy Scherf is a fucking animal and he should burn for this.


With that said, and at the risk of being an asshole, I'd also like to say that women shouldn't be permitted to work in men's corrections in the first place.  Particularly three-strike, life-without-parole, recidivist violent sex offenders.

It's every bit as stupid as it sounds.  And for the record, I don't think men should be working in women's lock-ups either.

EEO pipe-dreams have thrown common sense out the fucking window.  This kid paid a heavy fucking price.

RIP Sister!