Florida prison workers accused of plotting to kill inmate

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Florida prison workers accused of plotting to kill inmate
By JASON DEAREN and GARY FINEOUT, Associated Press | April 2, 2015 | Updated: April 2, 2015 4:17pm


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Photo By Union County, Fla., Sheriff's Office/AP

This arrest photo provided by the Union County, Fla.,
Sheriff's Office, shows Thomas Jordan Driver. Driver,
a prison employee, who together with another
current employee of the Florida Dept. of Corrections
and a former employee were arrested Thursday,
April 2, 2015. The three, who are Ku Klux Klan
members, planned to kill a black inmate after his
release in retaliation for a fight, officials said.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Three Ku Klux Klan members who worked at a Florida prison have been charged with plotting to kill a black inmate after his release because they believed the man is infected with HIV and hepatitis and he bit one of them during a fight, officials said Thursday.

The case comes as the latest black eye for the troubled state prison system.

The three men — Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42 — were arrested Thursday and each faces one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office said in a written statement.

The state said the murder plot started after Driver, an officer at the Department of Corrections Reception and Medical Center in rural north Florida, had a fight with the inmate.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/3-Florida-prison-workers-accused-of-plotting-to-6174816.php

[jwirr]

1. KKK running our prisons? Have we hit the bottom yet?

[callous taoboy]

3. Rock bottom? Nah, that might be Kay Bailey Hutchinson's husband's private prison empire here in Tx

where it is truly dog eat dog.

[Eric Stratton]

7. Racism is institutionalized.....

in every police agency in America.

[backscatter712]

2. KKK organizations need to be designated as terrorist groups.

That would likely drum a shitload of psychopathic asswipes out of America's law enforcement.

[Historic NY]

4. They should be sent to that prison once convicted.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Florida prison employees with Klan ties arrested in murder plot

Florida prison employees with Klan ties arrested in murder plot

By Carol Marbin Miller -
And Mary Ellen Klas -
[email protected]

04/02/2015 11:49 AM
| Updated: 04/02/2015 5:42 PM



Charles Thomas Newcomb Alachua County Jail

State and federal authorities have arrested three members of the Ku Klux Klan — all of whom either work, or have worked, for Florida’s troubled prison agency — on charges of conspiring to kill a former prison inmate, prosecutors say.

Arrested Thursday were Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, according to a news release from the state Attorney General’s Office. All three face charges of conspiracy to commit murder.

Prosecutors say Driver and Morgan work for the Department of Corrections. Newcomb was a former prison employee who was let go during his probation period.

The three are alleged to have plotted the murder as retaliation for a fight between the inmate, who is African American, and Driver. The corrections officers belong to the Traditional Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, prosecutors say.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/florida-prisons/article17207408.html#storylink=cpy

[Judi Lynn]

6. You may not have heard this, from last year. I didn't, until a moment ago:

Florida Department of Corrections Fires 32 Employees Over Inmate Deaths
September 23, 2014

Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Michael Crews on Friday fired thirty-two prison guards who were accused of criminal wrongdoing or misconduct in connection with the deaths of inmates at four Florida prisons.

Eighteen guards were fired for "inappropriate use of force" that resulted in the death of Matthew Walker at Charlotte Correctional Institution on April 11. Five others had been accused of using excessive force in the death of Rudolf Rowe on August 16, 2012, at Union Correctional Facility.

Also fired was Rollin Suttle Austin, a guard who ordered the gassing of Randall Jordan-Aparo, a 27-year-old sentenced for check forging, as he begged to be taken to the hospital for a blood disorder. The young man died that night. Mr. Austin kept his job for three years, until prison inspectors discovered the case of what they called "sadistic, retaliatory" behavior by guards. The United States Department of Justice is now investigating Mr. Jordan-Aparo's death.

Florida's corrections department has been under scrutiny since the Miami Herald reported in May about the 2012 death of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate who collapsed and died after guards locked him in a shower running unbearably hot water for nearly two hours. When he was found, chunks of skin were slipping off his body. No one was held accountable, but after the initial reports were published, police began to interview witnesses, and the prison's warden and top deputy were fired.

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