* Background is here if you need it. The governor’s office has confirmed that a Logan Correctional Center employee who was put on administrative leave last week for mocking a murder victim online is the same Thomas Angeli who was arrested in Sangamon County yesterday…
Scroll down, and it says this, however…
Charge 1: FOID Card Required - Acq/Possess Firearm
Statute: Possess Firearms - Expired FOID -Class A
Counts: 1
* Angeli, you’ll recall, posted this…
And, as we noted last week, this wasn’t the first time, either…
The Illinois Department of Corrections has specific rules that prohibit employees from disclosing information related to offender’s records.
In response to a post from April [2019], correctional officer Thomas Angeli, who goes by Tommy Angeli on Facebook, commented about transgender woman Janiah Monroe, who had recently been transferred to a women’s facility. “Saw her in healthcare when she first came in…dude looks nothing like a girl..a tall n skinny guy,” Angeli wrote. Later the officer expressed expectations that the inmate would have “something feminine” by way of sexual organs, but did not.
…Adding… MrJM in comments…
Why did Logan Correctional Center ever employ a goon whose knuckle tattoos say “PURE HATE”?
Ugh…
- Excitable Boy - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 1:28 pm:
This guy appears to have flushed his life down the toilet in record time.
- @misterjayem - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 1:34 pm:
Why did Logan Correctional Center ever employ a goon whose knuckle tattoos say “PURE HATE”?
– MrJM
- OneMan - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 1:51 pm:
I suspect unless it is like really obscene, you can’t make a hiring decision for a job like that based on a tattoo…
That being said, it isn’t a great look.
- Dotnonymous x - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 1:59 pm:
When are we going to stop fooling ourselves by claiming it’s only…One bad apple?
- Dotnonymous x - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:12 pm:
PURE HATE…tattooed on one’s hands may be the best indicator of a serious personality disorder I’ve yet seen…who missed it?
- Sam - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:23 pm:
Let’s hope Sheriff Campbell doesn’t hire him.
- WLDS News - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:25 pm:
It’s also not the first time he’s been in trouble for social media usage either.
https://www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-courts/illinois-prisons/2019/prison-guards-mocked-transgender-inmates-in-two-private-facebook-groups/
- Baloneymous - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:31 pm:
I knew his name sounded familiar. His FB page says he also works/worked at Fit Club in Springfield. I used to know some of his Fit Club musclehead friends. Hopefully they don’t support his hateful beliefs but I kinda doubt it.
- JS Mill - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:32 pm:
Man, some of these downstate counties need to shed themselves of the aryan nation wannabe employees.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:36 pm:
===It’s also not the first time===
lol
Yes, it’s in the post.
- From DaZoo - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 2:48 pm:
This might speak more to the prescriptive hiring process than saying anyone missed something. Unless it’s written in the job requirements (separate from job description) or in interview policy guidelines, then the HR people can’t exclude from consideration.
Ugh, indeed.
- Dotnonymous x - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 3:07 pm:
Again I say, who missed this obvious self-described hater?
- TheInvisibleMan - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 3:44 pm:
Wait a minute.
His charge is for not having a valid FOID card?
I know one of the requirements of being a correctional officer in many Illinois counties(Sangamon, Will, etc), is possessing a valid FOID card. Is that not the case in Logan County or for this position, or did his FOID coincidentally expire at almost the exact same time he was placed on leave?
Am I missing something? Maybe he’s just a Correctional Center facility employee, and not an officer? As in he’s the cook or something? Because this looks even worse if he was actually a corrections officer.
I’d welcome anyone who can correct my confusion or what I’m not understanding about his employment and lack of a FOID card.
- jim - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 3:47 pm:
Maybe he hates Republicans, which would be OK.
- Skeptic - Monday, Jul 29, 24 @ 3:55 pm:
“Maybe he hates Republicans, which would be OK.” No, hate is not ok.