Inmate’s Gassing Death Latest In Complaints Against Florida Prisons

[jakeXT]

Florida’s Department of Corrections (DOC) is under fire again for another round of allegations of abuse and corruption in the state’s prisons.

The Miami Herald reported this week:

Four investigators with the Department of Corrections have accused the state of Florida of running a prison system rife with corruption, brutality and officially sanctioned gang violence — and of retaliating against them when they tried to expose what was going on.

The four filed a federal whistle-blower complaint on Monday alleging that state prisoners were beaten and tortured, that guards smuggled in drugs and other contraband in exchange for money and sexual favors, and that guards used gang enforcers to control the prison population. They claim those actions were either tacitly approved or covered up.

Several weeks ago, three former employees of the psychiatric unit at Dade Correctional Institution in South Florida alleged that staff at the facility tormented and abused mentally-ill inmates for sport.


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According to the Herald, Jordan-Aparo had a blood disorder and was seeking medical treatment, but none was given to him. Land told the Herald Jordan-Aparo began growing weak and frustrated because he was not getting medical attention. After verbally lashing out at a nurse, Jordan-Aparo was gassed to death by staff at the prison. The Herald’s Julie Brown wrote, “He was sprayed so much that photographs show the outline of his body surrounded by mustard-colored gas all over the cell walls.”

http://fcir.org/2014/07/09/inmates-gassing-death-latest-in-complaints-against-florida-prisons/