Fourteen current and former inmates of a federal women’s prison in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit saying guards subjected them to unending sexual abuse and threats. When the inmates tried to report the misconduct, the suit alleges, they were shuttled off to a county jail or put in solitary confinement.
The lawsuit, first reported by the Miami Herald, accuses eight correctional officers of numerous, detailed instances of rape. It also says the leadership at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex—a sprawling Bureau of Prisons (BOP) campus in central Florida—created a “sanctuary” for guards who were known sexual predators.
Unanswered questions
It says they were sexual predators , but if they were on the sex offender registry they never would have been hired or remained as an employee. So how did they determine they were such? Unless this type of conduct is encouraged or openly tolerated by their superiors.
I think they need to rewrite this article and fill in the blanks.
They were sexual predators because they were engaging in sexually predatory behavior and were being permitted to carry on such behavior. That’s what I think the article means by this term.
And, as all of us on here know by now, there is a huge disconnect between who the state designates as a sexual predator and who is actually engaging in or seeking to engage in sexually predatory behavior.
What! Sexual misconduct by law enforcement officials. I can’t believe it. These are the people who keep the public safe from RSO’s. How can we ever feel safe with such activities? Could it be that you don’t have to be on a registry to commit such heinous offenses? Maybe we need to put all citizens on a registry and then we could monitor each other. Sounds stupid? Well it is but that is exactly what a ‘select’ group of citizens in this country are having to put up with. We have ‘select’ monitors watching after ‘select’ citizens.
I sure don’t hear the Books condemning these actions.
I know this is off topic but what is going on with the Ex post facto claim? A few weeks ago we hear the attorneys got some “good news” so what is happening? I be 50 in few more months and would like to live in peace
This is not specific to Florida. Restrain people (cuffs and/or leg restraints) or even alone in a confined area (cell) , and they (guards or other inmates) seem to think it’s free availability. If convicted of a sex crime of whatever… sigh.
The showers where I was weren’t monitored as most aren’t. Naked women magazine pages stuck to the wall… yet guys came in wanting. Sigh.
Florida and prison says it all. Put the Correctional officers on the registry, and see how many continue with these kinds of acts.
What would a Registry have to do with any of it? I guess listing them will make them want to commit more crimes, including $EX crimes. So I guess if we want more crimes we should Register them. I guess we do want more crimes so we can lock more people up and more often. It is a business.
If the charges are proven true, then when tried and convicted they should receive a harsher penalty as the guards were in a position of power and control over their victims, and their actions occurred under “color of law”. As an example to other corrections officers, they should serve their time in the same prison they worked at. Only when justice is applied equally will there be a change in the DOC. If you want someone to change their behavior they must be given a choice between the carrot or the stick, in this case I would prefer they get the stick.
I agree. I was also just stating that I didn’t see how the Registries were relevant to what Tereto said about “see how many continue with these kinds of acts”. I would assume that these officers won’t be employed as correctional officers again (regardless of Registry or not). So … how would they continue? Or perhaps Tereto is referring to putting these officers on the Registry and that will somehow deter others? Of course it wouldn’t. If people aren’t deterred by the threat of years in prison do people actually think they are concerned about being listed on a Registry? That is laughable.
Isn’t Tereto someone who fantasizes that Registries are useful? Might explain it.
Obviously they are useful, in destroying people’s lives, so how does this not work to aid in abuse prevention? Lots of people seem to care less if we kill ourselves for being on registry, well if these predatory corrections officers do the same, no loss in my book.
In Florida if you just look at a child cross-eyed you are designated a predator. These guards are the true predators and they should be so designated with their neighbors receiving written notice, as so many of us were subjected to.