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Female inmate beaten 'within an inch of death' by Florida prison guards: lawsuit
Fox News ^ | September 5, 2019 | Greg Norman

Posted on 09/05/2019 7:44:44 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs

A female inmate who requested medical assistance inside a facility near Orlando was instead beaten “within an inch of death” by male guards, a lawsuit filed this week alleges, in what her attorney is describing to Fox News as the “worst case of prison abuse in Florida I’ve ever seen.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; floridaman; guards; inmates; prison
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Am at a loss for words.
1 posted on 09/05/2019 7:44:44 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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“the guards alleged to have been involved in the incident have been reassigned to positions where they have no contact with inmates, pending the outcome of the investigation.”

When are they going on trial?


2 posted on 09/05/2019 7:48:57 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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Is there video?

I clicked to source but then got a long summary newsreel of today’s events, not the beating of this prisoner.


3 posted on 09/05/2019 7:52:03 AM PDT by gaijin
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reassigned to positions where they have no contact with inmates

They should be in Solitary Confinement awaiting their Public Hanging


4 posted on 09/05/2019 7:54:11 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Gosh, I WONDER if Jerome here will arrange for his buddies to, uh...GREET Lieutenant Turner, when he gets to prison:

https://youtu.be/bejklX2GMus?t=86

Juuuuust kidding..!

And you will *know* I’m kidding when you see this convict’s short video about the matter!


5 posted on 09/05/2019 7:56:37 AM PDT by gaijin
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The “screws” are wound to tight...


6 posted on 09/05/2019 7:56:56 AM PDT by shotgun
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Unfathomable. Do they hire psychotics for guards in the women’s prison?


7 posted on 09/05/2019 7:59:01 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." - Romans 12:9)
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Unfathomable. Do they hire psychotics for guards in the women’s prison?

I suppose these days, you'd have to be somewhat crazy to want to be a prison guard.

8 posted on 09/05/2019 8:00:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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More news here.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/malicious-and-sadistic-beating-lawsuit-claims-disabled-female-inmates-neck-was-broken-by-4-male-guards/

Really doubt we’ll be allowed to see any video.


9 posted on 09/05/2019 8:01:47 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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It does not matter, since this poor lady will be messed up for life, but I am guessing most of the guards who beat her were not White. This was way beyond your typical power struggle within prison walls. There was some reason four different people were fueled with enough hate to attack her like a pack of Hyenas.


10 posted on 09/05/2019 8:02:27 AM PDT by lee martell
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My brother knows a prison guard, and says the guy told him he “likes to beat people up.”


11 posted on 09/05/2019 8:03:09 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: null and void

Is this worth a ping?


12 posted on 09/05/2019 8:08:05 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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I wonder what she said to tick them off?


13 posted on 09/05/2019 8:08:34 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The difference between every jailer or prison guard I have ever met and the inmates is that one of them gets to go home more frequently.


14 posted on 09/05/2019 8:09:33 AM PDT by Clay Moore (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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Unfathomable. Do they hire psychotics for guards in the women’s prison?

Yes.

Dr. Clarissa Cole on After Hours AM April 17, 2019

(Start at 78:31)

Dr. Cole: He had an epiphany; he was going to become a cop!

Eric Olsen: Ha ha ha what??? Uh, so, wait a minute, he was told by a former employer, if you ever, you better never get a job where you have influence over others, an authority position, or I’ll do whatever it takes to stop you. So wouldn’t becoming a cop kinda give him the ultimate authority over people?

Dr. Cole: Well, you know, lucky for all these other people, he kept moving from county to county so they weren’t really, uh, yeah, it is the ultimate authority he was just moving around so people wouldn’t know what he was doing, and I think getting out of the teaching profession they didn’t know what he was going to do.

He eventually applied to the Broward County Police Unit; he was rejected, though, because he failed the psychological test.

Eric Olsen: Oh that’s it he’s out of the career. No career for him He’s obviously unstable…

Dr. Cole: One, you know what? One would think so, and I actually used to perform these psych tests, and oh, do I have stories! You would think that it would even, it’s supposed to, let me tell you how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to prevent you from getting a job as a police officer or a prison guard.

Eric Olsen: Sure.

Dr. Cole: Does that always occur?

Eric Olsen: I would hope that it does.

Dr. Cole: No, no, no, I would say 50% of the time.

Eric Olsen: What?

Dr. Cole: It’s supposed to be a be a requirement, a REQUIREMENT, if you don’t pass, if you are not psychologically fit, you are not supposed to become a police officer or a prison guard. Does that actually preclude you from becoming a police officer even as long ago as what, 2005? No, I was doing them in 2005. Half of the people I rejected still became a cop.

Eric Olsen: How does that happen? How do they get around this?

Dr. Cole: Oh God there so many ways

Eric Olsen: Is it a buddy, a dad?

Dr. Cole: My son, he’s the son of my buddy, his dad a cop, he has to be a cop, he’s going to work in this county and we’re really understaffed, we need people, we know he failed, but it’s OK. The amount of excuses I heard to employ people.

And that’s the thing, just so the general public is aware, it’s difficult to fail, it’s difficult to fail one of these psychological…

Eric Olsen: What would cause one…

Dr. Cole: It’s not like the bar is so darned high that no one could pass, it’s nothing LIKE that, this test is just to find out is this person basically psychologically stable, are they non-sadistic, do they not have criminal or punishing tendencies or narcissistic tendencies themselves. Basically you’re trying to weed out anybody that has a like God complex; I’m judge, jury, and executioner. You want to get those people out of there. You’re trying to get people out of there that are just psychiatrically so unstable that they can’t control their emotions so, maybe some sort of bipolar thing going on or somebody that absolutely clearly has a personality disorder, like narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder. They are not

Eric Olsen: Checks and balances. Checks and balances to protect the general public from somebody that would not do well in that position.

Dr. Cole: And I was very, yeah, I was extremely, forgiving on these psychological tests even when somebody would sort of hit sort of some of those marks on the tests we would give, I would ask in interviews I would ask a ton of questions just to be very, very sure that this person was indeed failing the psychological exam, and I did not fail that many people, but the people I failed, please believe me that it was for extremely good reasons, extremely good reasons, and half of them became cops anyway.

Eric Olsen: So when they‘d leave would they go to a different state and do it?

Dr. Cole: Hah no, they would get hired by different a county, like a couple minutes over usually. Somebody knew them and “Now let’s pick them up.” “No, no, no, he has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder, you really shouldn’t hire him” and they would. And that’s exactly, I hope it’s different that was like I said, this was in 2005, it scared the heck out of me and I said I would never have a career doing that I don’t want to know that those people are becoming officers.

Eric Olsen: Tell me it’s in the minority, though, that this happens.

Dr. Cole: It’s in the minority that people fail, the majority of people passed. But those that do fail, like I said it’s for very good reason, but half of them. Half of them got picked up. So no, it’s not a minority a full 50% got hired.

Eric Olsen: That is truly a scary number out there that 50% of...

Dr. Cole: It’s a small sample, a small sample that was in a place that was economically depressed and needed officers…

(End at 83:29)

In my not so humble opinion, I think she might be able to sue that individual, who through gross negligence violated the established rules.

"...the Federal Tort Claims Act that makes exceptions to sovereign immunity, that is, it lists situations in which you can in fact sue the government for negligently causing you damage.

Off hand I'd say knowing hiring a sociopath and giving him a gun, just might also count as gross negligence...

There is some individual, some person, who makes the decision to hire a known psychopath and inflict him on the people of his or her city.

This is as irresponsible as throwing an enraged rattlesnake into a kindergarten.

That person needs to be very publicly broken by the full might of the criminal and civil courts. VERY publicly. they need to be so badly destroyed, personally, professionally, financially and socially that any hiring manager will wake up in cold sweats at the thought of ever even considering hiring someone who, as Dr. Clarissa Cole said, “has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder”.

Better to quit your job and move far away than buckle to pressure to hire the mayor’s sociopath hair-trigger son!

The ones that are already in the department will attrit out or be counseled out of their careers, or they will murder a two year old and be kicked out, which should give the guys who hired them frequent nightmares. Good. That gives them very compelling incentive to follow the REQUIREMENT that everyone they hire passes a psych eval.

Police Departments and Departments of Correction will eventually be purged of lethally crazy thugs, it may take decades, but took generations to get where we are.

15 posted on 09/05/2019 8:38:48 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker


16 posted on 09/05/2019 8:40:24 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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I used to not really believe in hell. Now I know there's hell in the world-to-come because people create hell right here on earth. If God (though impossible) permitted them, unrepentant, into heaven, they would create a foul hell around themselves, right there in heaven.

Mysterium iniquitatis.

17 posted on 09/05/2019 8:53:01 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (To fear the Lord is to hate evil: hate pride & arrogance,evil behavior and perverse speech.- Pr 8:13)
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To: gaijin

Is there video?

************

Most likely got wipe due to recorder error......


18 posted on 09/05/2019 8:57:26 AM PDT by deport
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My old tagline was:

Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.
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Laurie Anderson once said ‘Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better.’

I guess one could say ‘Hell is exactly like where you are right now, only just a little worse.’


19 posted on 09/05/2019 9:11:17 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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“We recognize that preliminary reports from this incident are concerning,” the department’s secretary, Mark Inch, said in a statement to the media


That man has a gift for understatement.


20 posted on 09/05/2019 9:21:54 AM PDT by Boogieman
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