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Guard Brutality in Florida Prisons: 2 More Corrections Officers Arrested
By http://flaglerlive.com
Published: 05/06/2015

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents arrested Correctional Officer Sgt. Christopher Michael Jernigan, 37, and Correctional Officer Donald Dwight Sims, Jr., 21, for aggravated battery and failure to report, an FDLE release stated today. Jernigan is also charged with tampering with evidence. Both were guards at Columbia Correctional Institution, a 1,400-inmate prison east of Lake City, with a staff of about 355.

It is the latest in a series of arrests and firings involving prison guards in the troubled Florida Department of Corrections. In early April, two guards and a prison worker who were members of the KKK were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill a black inmate as retaliation. They’d worked at the Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler. Last September, 11 guards were arrested on brutality charges at the so-called Northwest Florida Reception Center and at Lancaster Correctional Institution.

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