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A woman was nearly turned away from visiting her loved one in a Florida prison due to her disability. She's now calling for change and pushing the Department of Corrections (FDC) for accountability.
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Katherine rundle's office issued a controversial memo that rainey's death was a result of his own poor health, along with "confinement in a shower." rainey's family is "disappointed and heartbroken" with the lack of charges. joining me now is julie k. brown, investigative reporter for "the miami herald," which broke the story as part of a three-year investigation into corruption in the florida prison system. thank you for being with me this morning. >> glad to be here. thanks. >> julie, let me ask you, first of all, it took all these years to come back and say this, that this man's poor health...
In march of this year. he was on supervised release. he violated it that's why he had the warrant outstanding. is he is 233 years old, greta. 23 years old. he had been arrested 30 times on felony charges. you know, we have 100,000 people in the florida prison system. can't warehouse everybody. there is room for improvement here. the question is where, of course. this is a very problematic individual. and, again, is he a cop killer. a street thug who decided that this officer had five kids, was going to die. >> sheriff, thank you for joining us and, again, i'm sorry about the news. and straight...