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Guard Has Pattern Of Inmate Abuse
By blogs.miaminewtimes.com
Published: 06/21/2010

Dale Picardat isn't your typical jailbird. The slight, bespectacled 53-year-old has zero criminal record, a degree from Michigan State University, and about as much street cred as a granny with a walker.

But he ended up at the Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center in August 2009 after a fluke loitering charge that was later dropped. His alleged crime: wandering without an ID around a wealthy neighborhood.

So it was unexpected when -- according to a department of corrections complaint -- a jailer named Marshall Hamilton escorted him into an off-camera hallway in front of cell number 5, picked him up by the throat, and slammed his head against a wall. As Picardat bled from his head, two other jailers punched him in the face and "knocked his glasses off."

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