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| FBI to investagte melee |
| By Orlando Sentinel |
| Published: 01/27/2009 |
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FLORIDA - FBI agents have been called to investigate a melee that left seven prisoners seriously hurt -- the latest in a long list of violent incidents, corruption and other problems at the nation's largest federal prison complex. It's likely the prisoners involved may face charges, Jeff Westcott, an FBI special agent in the bureau's Jacksonville office, said Monday as worried family members of prisoners flooded Internet blogs and chat rooms seeking information. But relatives were frustrated by a clampdown on news about the fight. The federal Bureau of Prisons released few new details about Sunday's recreation-yard brawl in a maximum-security section of the Federal Correctional Complex, including the names of those involved, what started the fracas and whether the inmates would be sent back to Coleman after they are released from hospitals. Opened in 1995, the prison in a rural area northwest of Orlando made up of cow pastures and oak trees, has had its share of troubles. Two former inmates, Osbaldo Farias and Gerardo "Giggolo" Martinez, are set to stand trial in federal court in Ocala this year on charges they stabbed and stomped a fellow prisoner to death inside a recreation "cage" at the prison in 2007. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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