Crisis in Corrections - The 'Desperate Situation' of Florida State Prisons 

Spent years of my life in Florida state prison system. The power of RU-vid gives me the voice to expose this very corruption within.

Abuse of my 74 year old father by a corrections officer, pushed to the ground while handcuffed and suffered broken ribs just to be thrown in solitary confinement to STOP his complaining of pain. Only 1 month later was suddenly diagnosed with stage 4 metastasized bone cancer (hence the pain he was complaining of). He was an honorable man serving 4 years of petty crime and is dying as we speak because of "the system". Family is attempting to process compassionate release after 6 weeks of cancer diagnosis and getting no where in the process. He was placed on life support and induced comma on a hospital bed with piss stains and a brick plastic pillow while he drys out to death on oxygen. Immediate family was told only a one and done visit. The ciivil rights are unjust and SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!!

Keith Turner had been a monster towards those inmates for years. Complaint after complaint was ignored, per norm when regards to a CO. It literally took years after Cheryl’s case to remove him for staff. I was there 2008 to 2010 when Turner was a sergeant and he was an asshole then. I can only imagine how much more of an asshole he became while employed at Lowell. I’d watch him come in and get a certain woman every night - hmmm ? I wonder what went in there?? Hope he enjoys his 25 years- you earned it Turner- enjoy it

As a Former Adult Probation Officer in Texas I worked for only 3 and half years in the Criminal Justice System. I thought I was getting into the field to help people naive and impressionable. The system is corrupt and a scam

25 years for Keith Turner - Finally is all I can say! F’ing Finally! He should have another 25 years for poor Cheryl too.

Four million is nothing for that.

" the state paid out 4 million dollars with your tax dollars to settle her civil lawsuit" this is the kind of statement that needed repeating since most taxpayers aren't aware or care to know

The prison system should not be privatized!

Any citizen that lives in this correctional facilitys County. File a complaint with the Grand Jury. They need to be investigated on the low low.

Where Is The Governor Of Florida On This Matter, Now Time To Ask Questions!

The biggest problem in the Florida prison system is management. The corruption runs deep from Tallahassee to the guards

I think her having 4 million dollars in the bank would make any nursing home willing to have her....its all about money, not care

I served 18 years back in the day. Raiford, Union, FSP, Lake Butler some of the most corrupt and brutal c/os in the system.

This stupid cop beat her up and broke her neck. Another criminal on the police Force. Just like in Memphis when those black criminal cops beat up and killed Mr Nicholls.

90% of our public institutions, agencies etc need to be reconsiderd and reworked

Aileen Wuornos didn't deserve the death penalty. The state and people placed a Innocent Raped Woman to Death.

Very cruel treatment.

Florida needs help all the way around. Sympathies for their governor.

If you're involved in a crime where someone dies, yes you get the same sentence. But if you lend your car to a roommate who you had no idea was going to commit a crime, you're not liable.

Can't the Great Ron De Satan Fix This?

Trust me this all revolves around money has nothing to do with public safety

Absolutely disgusting! So Cheryl gets 7 years for assualt, on a full grown man who was abusive, yet the correctional officers beat her nearly to death, leave her paralyzed from the neck down, and they get zilch?! Idc how much money they "awarded" Cheryl, she will never have the luxury of spending it or enjoy it and will likely have to use it to pay for her round the clock care! I've heard her story before but it still sickens me that those thugs got away with so much. Thank you for bringing awareness to these injustices and absolute criminal behavior by co's and deplorable conditions. Praying there's some action taken by those who hold the power to make changes and do better.

The state is not being held accountable for not doing enough to hold the officers accountable. Accountability needs to be brought forth on all these officers abusing inmates across the entire state of Florida! ALL LIVES MATTER!!!!

Abuse and severe neglect have been going on at Lowell for many years and even when an inmate did try to speak up and get help or even get word to family through people phone calls and mail,it was intercepted and intentionally blocked by the officers personally and the number of crooked and evil officers that are employed in this institution alone has been mind blowing and the cries for help from the inmates have been ignored and dismissed repeatedly through the years until recently.

Poor lady.

I'm praying for you NOW

The guards look like the worst criminals out there.

The prison's in every state have tons of bad problems

12:30 shouldn’t this FELONY MURDER LAW apply to law enforcement as well ? When cops kill and there are cops standing around or cops that just did nothing to prevent the killing.

So part of the settlement agreement is that the video not get shown?

Feel bad for the guy in 19 years. Shouldn't hppen.

someone i know spent 30 years in prison there because they was in the car with someone that had no idea a murder had just happen

Imagine not being charged for paralyzing someone who was in your custody. Florida DOC wow. And now it turns out Turner was a child molester.

And guards stage inmate fights and the guards cops and attorneys procicuters and judges as well as other inmates place bets . Like cock fights except using inmates instead of chickens.

The State's Attorney WILL NOT file criminal charges. That's gives ALL corrections officers in Florida a green light to do exactly as these two animals did. So if I were a prisoner in the Florida penal system, at the first sign....and I mean the very first sign that COs were going to attack me, I would immediately go into a self-defense posture and preempt their attack. That means exactly what you think it means!

My son is in prison right now and he’s been raped twice and the prison that he got raped the second time and he was beaten up because in 2020 he was at Wa Wa when a acquaintance came to Wawa, he thought they were going to fist fight when the man pulled out a gun. My son ran up on him. They struggled with the gun. The gun went off and shot. My son in the big left toe, took out the other three toes he did not testify against this man saying that he was already going to prison now the man got three years and he threatened to kill my son because he got three years for shooting. My son is at Calhoun correctional where his cousin is located and the man’s cousin is wanting to kill my son. He said if he comes back on the compound, he will die. He has been in confinement since April, he scared for his life. I have written DOC I have written the prison I have written, written, written, and nobody will listen to me. Please help my son he’s not a big man he doesn’t fight I mean he talks a lot of mess but he’s scared and I don’t blame him for being scared because these Black people don’t care who you are. They just know that if you win against them that you need to die and they don’t care please, his name is Joshua Allen Chafin his DC number is T41783. He has a mental condition, he has a blood condition and if he gets stabbed he could die before you get him to a doctor. OK he doesn’t have platelets these people won’t listen to me if you call me my name is Barbara Ballew. My phone number is 813-863-8566. I can tell you more that’s going on with him in these prisons I read your article. I watched it on RU-vid about helping this lady. I pray you will help my son he doesn’t have much longer he gets out he supposed to get out next month but they won’t give him his game time because he’s in confinement for his life. Thank you, Barbara Ballew

Please send darrell brooks and lori vallow and letecia stauch to florida prison!!!

I hope every day of his life in prison is Hell on Earth.

Abuse is still going on, especially in Lake Butler. Who do we go to when an inmate life is in danger and can not trust the guards for help because they will beat you also.

Simple solution, pay PEOPLE MORE MONEY

Hard time in Florida.

I am Brazilian, the situation is not what currently happens in the country's prison system, which is outdated, the prison situation is degrading

I did timelier at lol and then I went to Homestead. I was there when inmate in Moody got bit. She had bite marks all over her body. They never called an ambulance. and they were well aware of what was going on and her Bunky told the COs what was going on they didn’t believe or they could’ve stopped that they didn’t stop it. They left them bunkies. I know Turner he’s not the only piece of shit they’re at Lowell ci I knew Cheryl she was a beautiful woman now she’s stuck in a wheelchair because of the COs dragging her, you guys have no idea what really goes on

I retired from the FDC 30 months ago. At that time, no inmate in the FDC was permitted access to the internet whatsoever. But in this video the female inmate is referring to other inmates "getting strange emails." I'm skeptical about the accuracy of this video.

there were several incidents to occur during Idalia inmates were beat at Suwannee Correctional Annex go interview and inspect the facility request videos on 8/30 during hurrican transfes inmates wre harmed and mistreated.... Adam help there has to be a voice somewhere to go there.

The system has been broken and we Need MIRACLE A MILLION TIMES OVER to fix this system and even then im not sure ....sad people just dont care about a human life ....

Put these correctional officers on mainline and the true people, not a state appointed actor, will hold them accountable

And that is not even to say about lack of people willing to work in healthcare.

Getting life in prison because someone else borrowed your car keys and you happen to know a little bit about what they did is the most ridiculous damn thing you can ever imagine and this is why you need to do your homework before you go live somewhere..

Though many things about Florida are up to date if not futuristic, it's ability to retain corrections staff is still rooted in the middle of the 20th century and they will take whomever will fill out an application and show up everyday. Overall though, this is all a luxurious environment of freedom and justice compared to 100 years ago. That lady Cheryl would have just been set outside to die in the 19th century.

Maybe you should stop throwing people in jail for stupid stuff.

Why are the microphones all messed up on this channel.

Society thinks inmates are the super dangerous ones in prisons but it’s actually the guards who do the abusing some of the most ruthless COs are allowed in the DOC . Did time and I know first hand

“Do you see the cheeeeessssseeeee and the lettucccccccce? -Cheryl

Insane

So sad

As someone who works in a maximum security prison, it's making me insanely nervous that they're airing this on national television. This is no doubt going to cause riots. I don't understand people who tell the inmates that we don't have staff.

Ryan Holle you knew what they were going to do.

I went to Santa Rosa ci for 3 years. You only get fucked with if you do stuff to piss them off

Such crap I went to jail for panhandling 2 weeks ago and had to sleep on the floor. I shouldn't even had to be there I could've gotten a ticket I have health problems also. Florida is such crap.

THE BONEEESSS POPPPPIN

I wish the media could get the job classification right. They aren't guards. They are Corrections Officers.

This is infuriating 😮😢

Lived here for 20 years right to work for less state

So the 1# incarceration nation that arrests more of it's citizens per capita than the next 2 or 3 nations in line combined, has a staffing shortage. Maybe the public private partnership that backcharges taxpayers for incarcerations, has something to do with it?

I hope Aden Fucci in here if it’s bad

My comment is from person experience and surviving the hell behind that razor wire at lowell during 3 separate sentences I did without any real and genuine attempt to get me the help I really needed in order to get to the root of the deep seeded reasons that led to what repeated incarceration.

Holle had a tough time saying he would have called the….the…p…po..police…😂

They need to do an audit on its population.. I guarantee you they have people on their rosters that are not in custody..

These 2 guards at Lowell are some very powerful individuals! They handle that lady like a rag doll! Lieutenant Turner is a true force to be reckoned with.

The F B I needs to investigate the judicial system in the state of Florida!

*Goddamn that felony murder rule is bad - Choose your friends wisely and dont get involved in any trouble!*

Gulf Correctional is one of the worst in the state.

I hate that my tax dollars go to paying morally repugnant predators, propped up by an unjust system. I’m so sorry, to the incredible woman who has been paralyzed by those sorry excuses for men. You didn’t deserve any of that. Don’t let anybody tell you any different. I think you are incredible for using your time on the outside, and your precious health, to work towards prison reform (your interview alone will change lives, mark my words. It may not happen overnight, but your story is powerful. You are powerful.

Privatized prisons should be an abolished!!

The prisoner who loaned his car to his friends is lying. There is NO WAY his attorneys told him not to accept a plea deal. That was ignorance and foolishness on his part.

Our society is collapsing.... that means every institution, every program, every building, every entity is raging w the decay...

Prison, jail system has not kept pace with the waves of very young criminals committing adult crimes. Judges struggle to find vacant prisons for short and long sentences. Overpopulation demands sadly new Mega Prisons.

Oh what big men they are.

As a retired LEO I Fully support the felony murder rule and the law of parties. However, this case, if I have all the facts, stretches it out of proportion. If he had no prior knowledge that a crime was going to occur he is not a party. He has no mens rea.

They have to get off the we only hire a couple times a year and they might be able to get more people. Get rid of that crap that people are guilty for a crime when they only lent a car to the offender. Over crowded by old laws which make no sense.

Audio glitch!

The whole going to prison over lending someone your car keys is ridiculous!

Dam shame

Well someone had tried marijuana and he said that it helped him. I'm financially broke but I will give you emotional support from research. There was a state of California and other people made marijuana possible because of money sales.

The families of the peace officers need to be an eye for an eye

Prison for profit

Eon and Turner need forced labor to pay restitution for the victims' nursing care.

It's a stressful job nobody wants to stay on

7 28 pm the medical attention is not properly attended.The physicians are exhausted and and lose heart because they deal with so many and forget the people are in true need and are pushed to care for so many in a day. They lose heart and caring for someone's well being is a physicians first desire in the beginning. They forget that's someone's else's child no matter how old

That prosecutor was the one who prosecuted the two small boys who were molested by the chomo. The mother left them at a young age and the father worked a dead end job Boys had a lot of mental problems

my friends brother (steve dennard) was a guard in florida's prisons. he was murdered there. all for 7 dollars an hour.

No jail,prison, any form of penitentiary should sever food to inmates remove all foods with snacks

Hear the bones 🦴 popping 😅

Start making law enforcement employees pay the fines, not the taxpayers.

We as a nation can’t accept his as ok. Prisoners need rehabilitation not cruelty, otherwise we as a nation are no better than any other despotic regime.

trust me, DOC doesn't think it's THAT much of an emergency.

wow thats messed up what they did to that lady

WAGES ARE A JOKE. LESS THAN $20HR TO DEAL WITH IT.

What city is this in Florida?