Guards made inmates lick toilets clean - Florida Hendry Correctional Institution

[liberal N proud]

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues.

The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 605-inmate medium and minimum security at the Hendry Correctional Institution in the Everglades.

The previous warden and an assistant warden resigned, and three others were reassigned after an inmate was beaten and choked by guards in March.

State prisons chief Jim McDonough said the warrants include charges of battery and failing to report inmate abuse against former guards William Thiessen, Phillip Barger and Randy Hazen, Gabriel Cotilla, Kevin Filipowicz, Ruben Ibarra and Stephen Whitney. Fired guard James Brown was charged with grand theft.

Some inmates were given choices of eating their food off the floor or providing sexual favors to guards, McDonough said.

"We had cases where inmates were compelled under threat of force to clean a commode with their tongues," McDonough said. "These were improper, illegal heinous and despicable acts and it was done apparently in an organized and conspiratorial fashion."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/09/guards.charged.ap/index.html

[Ganja Ninja]

1. What we have here is a failure to communicate. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Oh God, that is disgusting!

How can any human being force any other being to do something like that?

[TahitiNut]

3. See ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

[Tyler Durden]

5. Two words:

Abu Grahib

[MountainLaurel]

7. In a nutshell

Let's not forget that Graner and a couple other ringleaders in Abu Ghraib got their start in torture as correctional officers in the U.S.

[Tyler Durden]

10. It will take a generation to live down the monsters we have become.

When LIBYA starts looking more liberated than us in some ways, we are really in trouble.

[rfranklin]

4. This is attempted murder...you can die from ingesting the...

e coli from other people's digestive tracks. They should be brought up on murder charges.

[havocmom]

6. second that

No justice when Justice is full of sick idiots.

[Adsos Letter]

8. I have heard more than one prison employee say that

sometimes the only real difference between SOME of the guards and the inmates is who gets to go home at night...

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. But, Gonzo said torture is OK!

If it's good enough for Gitmo, it's OK for prison guards! :sarcasm:


Everyday there's more and more despicable and heinous reports of abuse, torture and mayham. Is is my imagination, or has our nation really become more morally and ethically bankrupt under Bush?

[Missy M]

11. I hope those guards are convicted and sent to the same facility...

for their incarceration.

[dogday]

12. Just as Alan Shore on Boston Legal Said.....

They are criminals, they go to prison, we don't ask how they are treated behind bars because they are criminals.... This goes on everywhere in this country...Hard hearted guards who look at these people as nothing but animals.... No wonder people come out of prison worse than when they went in....