This week, thirty-two prison guards with the Florida Department of Corrections were fired after they were all implicated in the deaths of various inmates.
Prisons in the region have been under a great deal of scrutiny in recent years, due to a string of inmate deaths and assaults carried out by prison workers.
The bad press has pushed regional management to take drastic action, firing all of the guards who were implicated in the recent high profile killings.
Prison union officials have called the action a “Friday night massacre” and are defending the actions of the officers, saying that they were simply following orders that were handed down by their superiors.
This is likely true, but the individuals who actually carry out the deeds must assume their share of the responsibility as well. The union has argued that the superiors have not accepted their share of the responsibility, and while this may also be true, that does not vindicate the officers who physically engaged in these acts of violence.
“The procedure they were following in Charlotte was well known and condoned by the warden. Essentially they promoted the people most responsible and liable for the incident and fired everybody else down the chain,” Teamsters spokesman Bill Curtis said.
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