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Somali Inmate giving Feds trouble.

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A prisoner locked up in the federal Oakdale Correctional Complex is too violent for the low-security facility, correctional officers say, and they're asking Louisiana's two senators and U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, for help in getting the Somali immigrant transferred to a high-security prison.

 

In a letter to Alexander and U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter, correctional officers with the Council of Prison Locals 1007 and 3957 in Oakdale do not give the prisoner's name.

 

However, The Town Talk has learned, and Alexander's office confirmed, that federal prisoner Isaac Abdi Hashi, 29, is the inmate about whom guards are concerned at Oakdale.

 

Oakdale Correctional Center is Allen Parish, about 35 mniles south of Alexandria. This week the facility was holding 2,364 prisoners.

 

Hashi in 2008 threw boiling oil and water into the face of a federal immigration and customs agent in South Carolina and was sentenced to 210 months in prison. Hashi, who before the attack was in trouble for a series of car thefts and a carjacking, is scheduled for release in December 2023.

 

The guards in Oakdale, who didn't want to be interviewed on the record for this article, claim in the letter that Hashi began serving his sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Pollock on Oct. 31, 2008. One of the complexes at Pollock houses high-security male inmates.

 

The guards claim that while Hashi was in Pollock, "he attempted to murder a staff member ... by stabbing him in the neck with a homemade weapon," and that Hashi was transferred from Pollock to Oakdale on Dec. 30, 2009.

 

"Our issue is not that we cannot control this inmate," the guards say, "our issue is that our facility is not designed to allow for our staff to control this inmate.

 

"He has made it known by his words and actions that he has no desire to ever be released from prison," and Hashi "has indicated his intention is to kill any staff member and has showed that he is willing to carry out his intentions by stabbing two officers so far while here at Oakdale," the letter states.

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