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| Inmate Death Prompts Calls for Federal Probe of Florida Corrections |
| By wctv.tv - Julie Montanaro |
| Published: 10/09/2014 |
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An inmate dies in prison one day after family members called claiming a sergeant there threatened to beat her to death. Florida Department of Corrections records show that Latandra Ellington died on October 1st at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala. Her aunt says she called the day before to report the threats. Attorneys for the family shared copies of two letters Ellington sent her aunt in the weeks before her death. In one letter Ellington wrote the guard threatened to "beat me like a dog" and in the other she wrote he threatened to "beat me to death." Family attorneys Daryl Parks and Benjamin Crump say an independent autopsy done on Saturday found Ellington died - in part - due to abdominal hemorrhaging "consistent with punches and kicks." They were joined by the NAACP in calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Ellington's death. They sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder earlier today. Read More. |
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