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Some Lawmakers Have Questions Regarding Further Corrections Officers' Retaliation Claims
By news.wfsu.org- Sascha Cordner
Published: 10/20/2015

John Ulm is a Senior Inspector within the prison agency’s Inspector General’s office—tasked with looking into misconduct within the prison agency. During this past session, he was one of several investigators who testified about the Florida Department of Corrections during the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.

“The atrocities that I saw on the streets of America hold no cord to what I’ve seen inside the institutions of the penitentiaries of the state of Florida, and we ask our correctional officers to go in there every day and do a difficult job. I know it. I did that job as an 18-year-old kid. I was hired at Madison Correctional Institution at 18-years-old,” he said, during the March hearing.

“Because of the fact that those folks came forward, I feel like they’re being retaliated against right now,” said Sen. Greg Evers (R-Baker), who chairs that committee.

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