THE
LATEST [REPORTED]
INCIDENCES OF
INMATE AGGRESSION
The EVERGLADES CI STORY As reported without question:
Inmate stabs prison nurse in West Dade
facility.
Miami Herald: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
A prison nurse was in critical condition after an inmate at the Everglades Correctional Institution stabbed her several times at the West Miami-Dade facility. The 30-year-old woman was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Unit shortly after the 4 p.m. attack, said a Miami-Dade fire department spokesman. The woman, a member of the facility's medical staff, was just starting her shift. She had passed through the main gate and was walking across the prison compound on her way to the medical facility. That's when a male inmate came at her with a shank, or homemade knife, said Sterling Ivey, a spokesman with the Florida Department of Corrections. The alleged assailant was identified as 200-pound, 5-foot, 10-inch tall, Anthony Johnson, sentenced to life in prison nearly 14 years ago for a slew of armed-robbery convictions.
Interesting sideline to the stories below is that all of the inmates named on this page were transferred from UNION CI as part of the DOC's POPULATION ADJUSTMENT MOVEMENT that turned UNION CI into an old folk's prison (mostly)
The WASHINGTON STORY As (barely) Reported:
On WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2003, at 6:00 at night, a riot began when one prisoner clubbed an officer in the head 'from behind' with a baseball bat. Four more officers jumped in to help with pepperspray and two more inmates grabbed bats and horseshoes and beat them off. Several inmates tried to help the officers.
Anyway, the five officers were transported to two hospitals in the area. All have serious injuries. Four of the officers have been released from the hospital, one remains in critical but stable condition. At least two of the inmates have been sent to FSP.
The FIRST CHARLOTTE STORY
On April, 2003, an inmate stabbed an officer, Timothy Moore. The guard was NOT seriously injured. Inmate Derrick Grantley was shipped off to FSP. Sterling Ivy appeared to back out of an investigation of the policies and procedures inside the prison.
The SECOND CHARLOTTE STORY As (greatly) Reported:
On WEDNESDAY June 9th, 2003, five prisoners with sharp tools were on work detail at night with one female guard, fairly new on the force, armed only with pepperspray and a radio, standing watch. Accounts have it that the prisoners used a sledge hammer to kill the guard at 9:00 at night.
FDLE Larry Long says at 10:00, the prisoners were trying to escape over the 12-foot-high, razor-topped inner fence with a makeshift ladder. He doesn't mention how they planned to get over the outer razor wire fences, but one prisoner, was caught between the two fences. Sterling Ivey says one or more of the prisoners may have been trying to help the guard.
Anyway, attempt aborted, 1 guard dead, 1 one inmate dead, at least 1 inmate sent to FSP, three others never named, just disappeared.
AGGRESSIVE INMATES
EVERGLADES CI INMATE
ANTHONY JOHNSON, The Man With The Knife
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/anthonyjohnson.html
WASHINGTON CI INMATES
DARRELL JENKINS, #306233
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/darrelljenkins.html
TRACY WRIGHT, #361209
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/tracywright.html
CHARLOTTE CI INMATES
FIRST CHARLOTTE STORY
DERRICK GRANTLEY, #198328
THE INMATE WHO STABBED A GUARD
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/derrickgrantley.html
SECOND CHARLOTTE STORY
CHARLES FUSTON, THE DEAD INMATE,
AN IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN HERO.
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/charlottehero.html
DWIGHT EAGLIN, "THE FIGHTING IRISHMAN"
THE INMATE WITH THE LADDER
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/dwighteaglin.html
JOHN BEASTON, "9650111"
NAME NOT RELEASED BY THE DOC
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/johnbeaston.html
INMATE Y - STEPHEN SMITH
NAME NOT RELEASED BY THE DOC
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/stephensmith.html
INMATE Z - MICHAEL JONES
NAME NOT RELEASED BY DOC
https://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fci/michaeljones.html
State releases IDs of inmates transferred after guard's death
http://www.sptimes.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/APState.woa/wa/story?id=FL_Guard_Killed
2003/06/25 Wed AM 01:24:01 EDT
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/
Associated Press, June 24, 2003 - 06:38 AM
----------------------------------------------------------------------------PUNTA GORDA, Fla.
The three inmates transferred after a botched escape attempt from Charlotte Correctional Institution, which resulted in the death of a female prison guard, have been identified.The Department of Corrections confirmed Monday that officials moved 46-year-old Michael Jones, 42-year-old Stephen Smith and 27-year-old Dwight Eaglin to Florida State Prison on June 12, the day after guard Darla Lathrem was attacked and killed.The three men are believed to be responsible for killing Lathrem and another inmate.They were transferred to Florida State Prison, a maximum security facility in Raiford, said DOC spokesman Sterling Ivey said."It's primarily a lock-down facility," he said. "No one is out of their cell. It's one step below death row."Officials already had identified Eaglin as having taken part in the failed escape. Correctional officers spotted him between two 15-foot security fences with a makeshift ladder. Minutes later, officers found two other inmates in a nearby dormitory.They also found Lathrem's body and two other injured inmates. She was supervising a work crew of five inmates at the time of the attack. Officials have not said where Lathrem and the two injured inmates were found.Inmate Charlie Fuston, 36, died two days later from head injuries. The other injured inmate has been unofficially identified as John Beaston, 37. He is being treated in a prison medical center in Lake Butler.FDLE, which is investigating the deaths, and DOC officials would not confirm Monday whether Jones and Smith were involved in Lathrem's death and the escape attempt.------Information from: News-Press, http://www.news-press.com© Copyright St. Petersburg Times. All rights reserved.
AGGRESSIVE INMATES
Through May 31 of this year, 272 assaults by inmates on officers have been reported, about average according to the department. The DOC has refused to take any responsibility for inmate or guard aggression.
