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| Dead Inmate Won Lawsuit |
| By tampabay.com |
| Published: 06/07/2010 |
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RAIFORD — When the family began to sing "like a bird from prison bars, I'll fly away," the four inmates stopped packing dirt on the new grave and listened. On this day in late May, more than a dozen voices in perfect harmony wafted across this vast field where thousands of unclaimed Florida inmates are buried, their graves marked by metal license plates. This one reads: "Jeremiah Thomas, 190479, DOD 5/16/10." "We are burying Jeremiah on prison property because the Florida Department of Corrections had my son for 21 years and is responsible for him," Maxime Thomas, 62, told weeping family members who had come from Texas, Virginia and South Florida for the graveside service. Read More. |
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