7NEWS has confirmed that recently hired Deputy Chief of Security at the Hattieville Prison Carmen Zetina is no longer in that post. We could not reach Prison CEO Marlon Skeen for comment as he did not return our calls. But Zetina told us that he was terminated, but that he expected it, and added that, “when you stand firm, you mash a lotta toes.” Zetina wouldn’t go into details and would only say, “I’m a disciplinarian and I live by the books; I do not tolerate and will not condone nonsense.” Whose toes he mashed we can’t say for sure, but we are informed from reliable sources that Zetina had a difference with the administration, and it got so bad that today he was locked out of the prison when he reported to work today.
It’s a high profile termination because ZSetina was hired just weeks ago – on the heels of the dismissal of another former police officer Oscar Puga. Zetina took Puga’s job. Puga was dismissed after he was found with accused killers Joseph Kee and Taedron Bennett. But Zetina’s enforced departure, hardly a month in as the Deputy Chief of Security, does not reflect well on the prison administration. But when we spoke to him this evening, he had nothing but praise for the Kolbe Foundation’s programme of reform.
