“It will be refiled,” she said.

Duffe said she wasn’t aware of an inspector general report launched after the discovery on May 31, 2013, of her client at Farmington Correctional Center. The report, which was completed Nov. 3, 2013, says corrections employees lied and failed to follow procedures in administrative segregation, one of the most restricted areas of the prison. The findings were based on numerous interviews with staff, wing check logs and surveillance video.

The report concluded that several corrections officers violated staff conduct and failed to follow a post order requiring that prison wings be patrolled every 30 minutes. Corrections officers are supposed to visibly check through each cell door window and keep a record of it.

Multiple officers told investigator Matthew Pierce that they were too busy to do the checks. Some said it was customary to initial the logs even though they weren’t done at the end of a shift. Some said that there was inadequate lighting and that Plexiglass windows into cells were hard to see through because of dirt, wire and scratches.

‘Negligent’ and ‘indifferent’