TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) An inmate at a Florida corrections facility is alleging negligence after he says a door at the facility slammed shut and severed his finger.
State lawmakers are sounding the alarm about dangers building within the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC), with prisons understaffed and overcrowded. As the state focuses on increasing correctional officer pay, there is also a push to release some of the sick and elderly.
State lawmakers are sounding the alarm about dangers building within the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC), with prisons understaffed and overcrowded. As the state focuses on increasing correctional officer pay, there is also a push to release some of the sick and elderly.
CDC Survey: Distrust Likely To Keep Majority Of Florida Prisoners From Getting COVID-19 Vaccine
By Alex DeLuca
May 3, 2021
When Jose Valentin learned he’d have the opportunity to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, he wrestled over whether or not to get it.
Valentin, who is incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, said he feels lucky to be offered the potentially life-saving shot; he knows many people across the world still lack access to it. But after weighing the decision, he ultimately refused it.
“They don’t want us in society,” Valentin, 46, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1998 for first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, wrote in an email, “so why do you want us healthy in here?”