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| Prison deaths raise serious questions in Florida |
| By bradenton.com- Julie K. Brown |
| Published: 06/16/2014 |
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Six years ago on June 25, Donna Fitzgerald, a 50-year-old corrections officer at Daytona Beach's Tomoka Correctional Institution, was stabbed more than a dozen times with a piece of sheet metal. She was found dead, slumped over a pushcart, her blood spilled on the concrete floor of a prison paint room. A subsequent investigation by Florida's Department of Corrections' inspector general blamed the warden, Jerry Cummings, and his top commanders for critical security breaches, gross neglect of duty and ineptitude. Those errors, the probe said, ultimately permitted an inmate to ambush and murder Fitzgerald, who was working late at night -- alone -- supervising a crew of rapists and violent offenders, some of them lifers, who had access to sharp tools as part of a prison work program. Read More. |
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