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| New Florida prison boss is a DOC lifer |
| By miamiherald.com- Julie K. Brown |
| Published: 12/02/2014 |
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Corrections Officer Darla Lathrem never had time to hit the panic button on her radio. The prison guard, 38, was smashed over the head with a sledgehammer, then stuffed into a mop closet by inmates at Charlotte Correctional Institution. Her radio and keys were dumped into a prison toilet. After Lathrem’s 2003 death during a botched escape attempt, questions were raised about why a lone rookie officer was allowed to supervise five violent felons — two of them convicted killers. In the wake of the incident, the warden, an assistant warden and four officers were either demoted, transferred, reprimanded or resigned. Read More. |
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