White supremacist prison guards work with impunity in Fla. :

In June, three Florida prison guards who boasted of being white supremacists beat, pepper sprayed and used a stun gun on an inmate who screamed “I can’t breathe!” at a prison near the Alabama border, according to a fellow inmate who reported it to the state.

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Another Inmate , He Report Filed With The Florida Department Of Corrections Office Inspector General Stated If You Notice These Two Incidents Were People Color They Guards Let It Be Known Are White Supremacist , He Inmate Jamaal Reynolds Wrote The Black Officers And White Dont Even Mingle With Each Other Every Day They Createa Hostile Environment Trying To Provoke Us So Can Havea Reason Put Their Hands On Both Incidents Occurred In View Of Surveillance Cameras , E Said Reynolds Neatly Printed Letter Included The Exact Times And Locations Named Officers Inmates Its Type Of Specific Information That Would Have Made It Easier For Officials To Determine If Reports Were Legitimate But Inspector Generals Office Did Not Investigate , Orrections Spokeswoman Molly Best Said Did Not Provide Further Explanation , Nd The Department Hasnt Responded To Associated Press August Public Records Requests For Videos Some Florida Prison Guards Openly Tout Associations With White Supremacist Groups Intimidate Inmates And Black Colleagues , A Persistent Practice That Often Goes Unpunished , Ccording To Allegations In Public Documents And Interviews Witha Dozen Inmates Current Former Employees The Nations Third Largest Prison System Corrections Officials Regularly Receive Reports About Guards Membership Ku Klux Klan Criminal Gangs , Ccording To Former Prison Inspectors , Nd Current And Former Officers Still , Ew Such Cases Are Thoroughly Investigated By State Prison Inspectors Many Downplayed Officers Charged With Policing Their Own Or Discarded As Too Complicated To Pursuei Ve Visited More Than 50 Facilities And Have Seen That This Isa Pervasive Problem Is Not Going Away , Aid Democratic Florida State Rep Dianne Hart Its Partly Due To Our Political Climate But , Hose Who Work In Our Prisons Dont Seem To Fear People Knowing That They Re White Supremacists The Ap Talked , Ho Live And Work Inside Floridas Prison System , Escribe It As Chronically Understaffed And Nearly Out Of Control In 2017 , Hree Current And Former Florida Guards Who Were Ku Klux Klan Members Convicted After The Fbi Caught Them Planninga Black Inmates Murder This Summer , Ne Guard Allowed 20 30 Members Ofa White Supremacist Inmate Group To Meet Openly Insidea Florida Prisona Black Officer Happened Upon The Meeting , Hey Told The Ap , Nd Later Confronted The Colleague Who Allowed It Officer Said Their Incident Report About Meeting Went Nowhere , Nd The Guard Who Allowed It Was Not Punished Officer Spoke On Condition Of Anonymity Because They Were Cleared To Discuss Official Prison Business Told Ap That , Fter The Report Went Nowhere , Hey Did Not Feel Safe At Work And Are Seeking To Leave Officers Who Want Blow The Whistle On Colleagues Often Ostracized Labeleda Snitch , Ccording To Current And Former Officers Mark Caruso , A Former Sergeant With Florida Corrections Who Was Twice Fired And Reinstated After Blowing The Whistle On Fellow Officers , Escribed The Department Asa Good Old Boy Network He Said That Senior Officers In Charge Have Power To Censor Any Allegations Of Corrupt Behavior Occurs On Their Watch This Keeps Reports Inside Prison Walls Caruso Worked At Three Prisons Central Florida And Reported Inmate Beatings Officer Misconduct Multiple Times Beinga Whistleblower Did Not Work Out Well For Him Was Fired After Reporting Ona Colleague First Where Sergeant , E Said He Was Reinstated After The Officers Union Challenged Firing , Nd He Moved Toa New Prison There , E Again Reported An Officers Use Of Force And Was Later Fired Reinstated After The Union Challenged It In 2019 , E Reported For Duty At Another New Post , He Central Florida Reception Center Was Soon Greeted With Signs On An Employee Bulletin Board Where His Name Had Been Crossed Out And Snitch Scrawled Instead , Ccording To Testimony Ata Union Grievance Hearing Another Officer Spit On His Car Windshield , E Said Despite The Intimidation , Aruso Continued Reporting Inmate Abuse And Other Illegal Activity By Fellow Officersi Have Reported People When Physically Seeing Them Inmates , E Testified In Another Grievance Hearing Earlier This Year The Ap Obtained Video Of At Which Multiple Officers And Leadership Detail About Systems Reporting Structure Culture Corrections Are Required To File Incident Reports If They Seea Co Worker Acting Inappropriately Some Florida Prisons , Upervisors Often Tell Them Not To Email The Reports , Ccording To Officers Who Testified At Carusos Hearing Instead , Hey Re Told To Tell Their Supervisor Verbally What Happened Or Write It Longhanda Superior Officer Then Types Up , Hoosing The Language And Framing Eventa Sergeant Testified That Reason He Typed Up His Officers Incident Reports Was Because Most Struggle With Writing Also , Ost Do Not Have Computer Access At The Prison Caruso Said He Refused To Report Incidents Of Corruption Verbally Because It Left No Record , Nd He Worried That Prison Leadership Would Censor His Reports So Emailed Them To Create An Electronic Record , A Decision That , She Says , Rked Prison Leadership After Seeing His Reports Go Nowhere , E Finally Went Over His Superior Officers Heads Caruso Made Contact With An Investigator In The Office Of Inspector General And Emailed Florida Corrections Secretary Mark Inch Directly Responded To Him Expressing Concern , Caruso Said , Nd Referred The Matter To Igs Office That Did Not End Well , Ither For At Least Two Yearsi Reported To The Igs Office All Of Corruptioni Saw He Didnt Respond Or Follow Up , Aruso Said Of The Inspector Generals Investigator Caruso Was Eventually Fired Again After Officials Hed Failed To Report An Inmate Beating One He Did Not Actually Witness It Wasa Baffling Charge Given His Active Campaign Reporting Others Throughout Corrections Career Claimed , Nsuccessfully This Time , Hat The Firing Was Retaliation If Inspector General Were Motivated To Aggressively Investigate Reports Of Abuse By White Supremacists Or Other Gang Members Working As Correctional Officers He Would Face Barriers , He Former Investigators Told Ap Thats Because State Law Limits The Use Of Inmates As Confidential Informants , They Said , Nd Guards Are Reluctant Or Afraid To Snitch On Their Colleagues For An Inmate Act As Informant , He Fbi Would Have To Take Over The Case Because Florida Law Limits Inspector Generals Offices Interactions With Inmates , He Former Investigators Said We Dont Have The Authority To Do Anything , Ne Said Officers , Meantime , Ear Retaliation Officers Are Saying Their Colleagues Members , Ut They Can Have Me Killed , Ne Former Investigator Said After The Three Guards In Florida Were Captured On Fbi Recordings Plottinga Black Inmates Murder Upon His Release , Lorida Corrections Spokeswoman Michelle Glady Insisted There Was No Indication Ofa Wider Problem Of White Supremacists Working In The Prisons , O The State Would Not Investigate Further After Statement , N Ap Reporter In April Visited The Employee Parking Lot Of One Facility States Rural North And Photographed Cars Trucks Adorned With Symbols Stickers That Are Often Associated White Supremacist Movement Confederate Flags , Q Anon And Thin Blue Line ,