Florida federal prisons top sex-abuse list

[seafan]

Source: Tampa Tribune

CLEARWATER - The sexual abuse of federal inmates by federal prison workers is getting worse, and two of the top three trouble spots are in Florida, a Justice Department report shows.
The Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County ranks first, with 80 abuse allegations from 2001 to 2008. The federal prison in Tallahassee is third, with 67 in the same period.
The findings echo trends in the state of Florida's prison system, where few allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct against personnel result in prosecutions.

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A 2004 investigation by News Channel 8 revealed that within the Florida Department of Corrections - which, like all state prison systems, generally houses more violent prisoners than federal prisons - complaints by female inmates seldom resulted in prosecution.
WFLA analyzed 468 complaints of harassment or sexual misconduct by Florida prison workers against female inmates between 1998 and 2003 and found only two cases that resulted in a successful prosecution.

In both cases, the inmates provided investigators with DNA evidence.

Herbert Jackson, a male nurse at Gadsen Correctional Facility in Quincy, went to prison for 18 months for having intercourse with a female inmate. She turned over a used condom to investigators.
The second case involved therapist Thomas Poppy. He was the subject of three investigations involving five female inmates at Hernando Correctional Institution in Brooksville when investigators recorded a therapy session with a female inmate. The inmate recovered DNA evidence after oral sex; Thomas received probation.



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[shadowknows69]

1. Ok Floridians, I hate to have to say this and mean no disrespect.

But I think we need to relocate everyone in your state to a different one and quarantine the penninsula for the good of the country. Y'all are too close to the Bermuda Triangle or something and its making bad things happen.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Like that annoying, crotchety guy the local news always finds before every major hurricane hits us:

I ain't movin'! :P

[RantinRavin]

2. Interesting stat

Complaints of sexual misconduct have more than doubled, the study shows, rising 135 percent in the past eight years in 93 federal centers.

The report cites female federal prison workers in a disproportionate number of allegations. Women make up 27 percent of the Bureau of Prisons work force but were the subjects in 30 to 39 percent of allegations of sexual staff abuse and misconduct.

[damntexdem]

3. They're number one! They're number one!

Texas is tired of always having to be number one on everything bad. ;-)

[No Elephants]

5. Florida does seem to be doing its very best to pull ahead of Texas. A tie?

[Odin2005]

6. Gee, men in a dominant position over women, what did they expect would happen?

:eyes: