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Former Florida Prison Guard Sentenced for Conspiracy to Assault Youthful Offenders
Loaded on March 1, 2022
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2022, page 35
On September 8, 2021, a former guard with the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) was sentenced to 33 months in prison and two years of supervised release for “conspiring to assault youthful offender inmates at the South Florida Reception Center,” according to a press release by the federal Department of ...
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