Warrants issued in Florida DOC abuse scandal

[seafan]

Source: Gainesville Sun

State arrest warrants were issued Tuesday for eight previously fired South Florida prison workers in a case that federal officials are watching.

The men are accused in the warrants of abusing inmates by beating them and making them perform tasks such as cleaning toilets with their tongues.

The eight former correctional officers were employed at Hendry Correctional Institution, a medium- to minimum-security, 605-bed prison for men. The officers were fired following an investigation that began in mid-March when an officer not implicated in any wrongdoing found and reported fresh bruise marks on an inmate's neck.

During a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Department of Corrections Secretary James McDonough said the former correctional officers faced a combined 23 state criminal charges, including battery on inmates, failure to report battery on inmates and grand theft. McDonough described the former officers' behavior as "improper, illegal, inhuman."

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"These were heinous acts. There was a sadistic level to them," McDonough said. "Some were choked into unconsciousness or compelled to clean a commode with their tongue. In other cases, officers gave inmates their choice of performing sex acts on an officer or perform other improper acts like eating food off the floor. Whatever choices were made, brutality ensued."

Read more: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070509/LOCAL/705090335/-1/news

[formercia]

1. Failure of Leadership

This is what happens when leadership becomes a bad example.

[tabasco]

2. A failure of basic humanity too.

A lack of leadership, no doubt, but how can humans act this way?

Many humans simply have no humanity.

[NBachers]

3. Put these hacks right back into the prison system

but put them in on the other side of the bars. Nothing inmates like better than seeing their hack tormentors out in the general population. Let these pigs get dealt with.

[ChiciB1]

4. Gee... Don't You Know, TORTURE Works???

I'm gonna say it again... The U.S. of ASS will soon erupt into Chaos!! Unfortunately, REVOLUTION is about ALL THAT IS LEFT for "We The People" to do!

[canetoad]

5. I have one word for this

Stanford prison experiment.

[canetoad]

6. I have one word for this

Stanford prison experiment.

[TheMadMonk]

7. To those who might take notice. THIS IS A HATE CRIME.

And should be prosecuted as such, no matter what the sex, religion, orientation, ethnicity of the victims. Enumerated lists leave loopholes.