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Bad Apples in Florida DOC
Loaded on May 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1996, page 15
Kenneth Smith, fired from four separate Florida prisons, exemplifies a problem the Florida DOC has: keeping "bad apples" out of the barrel. Smith was fired from prisons for repeatedly violating prison rules, drunken driving, and a criminal conviction for resisting arrest, yet always managed to get rehired at a different …
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