“Whistleblower Prison Guard Paid the Price for Reporting Abuse”

“Whistleblower Prison Guard Paid the Price for Reporting Abuse” July 22, 2015

Sts Processus and Martinian, patrons of prison guards (and jailers of Sts Peter and Paul), pray for him–and for all those involved in this story:

…The brutal encounter, focal point of a civil lawsuit settled by the DOC last month, was eerily similar to another cell extraction at Charlotte in 2014, except that it ended in the death of an inmate, Matthew Walker. Last week, a Charlotte County grand jury said there wasn’t enough evidence to bring criminal charges against the officers involved in Walker’s fatal beating, largely because the officers discarded the evidence and — as in the Bradley case — told their bosses that they had no idea how Walker’s larynx was crushed or how his head was bashed with such force that there were imprints in his skull.

Bradley’s case likely would have ended similarly — with no one knowing what happened and no one arrested — had it not been for one officer, John Pisciotta.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article27738046.html#storylink=cpy

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