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Retired guard pens book on realities of prison
By highlandstoday.com- Marc Valero
Published: 06/19/2014

SEBRING — A nighttime wind storm knocked the power out at Avon Park Correctional Institution in 1976, leaving Correctional Officer Chip Valley in complete darkness in a dormitory among 200 inmates.

It was the first time at the correctional facility that Valley experienced “intense fear” because he was at the end of a wing far from the officer’s station.

Valley, a Sebring resident, described this experience in chapter four “Power Outage” of his book “A Whole Other World ‘Life in the Shadows of Prison.”

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