Ebel Prison Case Study

On March 19, 2013, the head of Colorado Department of Corrections Thomas Lynn Clements shot and killed at his home. The shooter was Evan Spencer Ebel, he was an ex-inmate at the Colorado Department of Corrections. Ebel was a trouble inmate who has had a long history of behavioral problems, Ebel served eight years in prison and most of that was in solitary confinement. After serving his eight years, Ebel was released into society straight out of solitary confinement. Once being release Ebel struggled with anxiety and paranoid. According to Ryan Pettigrew (2013), “over the course of the last few weeks, Ebel was growing increasingly agitated in his adjustment to life outside of prison and beyond the tiny “administrative segregation” cells in which