I cannot believe that somebody didn't know this was going on.

I don't think that firing is enough. Hopefully they will be criminally charged.

Full article.....

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/florida-prisons/article37157142.html


5 fired at Miami-Dade lockup where teen died in beat-down

Some staffers falsified documents after detainee’s death, state says

Kids were sometimes offered treats to deliver beatings, lawyers say



Team dispatched to Miami-Dade to investigate bounty allegations



Five staff members at Miami-Dade’s juvenile lockup have been fired for infractions that include failing to oversee detained children and falsifying reports, authorities said on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.

By Carol Marbin Miller

cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com



At a since-shuttered juvenile corrections center in Pahokee, staff members used Snickers bars to get kids to beat each other up. In Broward County’s juvenile lockup, free iced tea has purportedly been similarly employed.

Department of Juvenile Justice administrators won’t say if they think that’s what happened to Elord Revolte, the 17-year-old who died last month after a vicious attack by more than a dozen detainees at the Miami-Dade juvenile lockup.

But they did say this late Wednesday evening: Five staffers at the lockup, including three supervisors, have been fired for infractions that include failing to oversee detained children and falsifying official reports. And a special team will be dispatched from the agency’s Inspector General’s Office on Thursday to initiate an investigation into allegations that “honey buns” have been used as bounties for beat-downs.

Elord was booked into the Miami lockup on Aug. 27 on charges of armed robbery. He left on a stretcher four days later after being jumped by as many as 20 other detainees, authorities said. It is not yet clear what led to the melee in which the teen was injured. But in the wake of Elord’s death, lawyers for delinquent children, as well as Elord’s former foster mother, have told the Miami Herald that it has been common practice for officers to use treats as an inducement for detainees to punish other kids.

In Elord’s case, kids in his module “complained about him to the guards,” Chief Assistant Miami-Dade Public Defender Marie Osborne said. “One guard’s response was, ‘You gotta do what you gotta do.’ The kids understood they had a green light.”

so sad. what the hell is wrong with this world?

XxAxX said:

so sad. what the hell is wrong with this world?

The corrections officers bribe the kids with honey buns, iced tea, burgers, etc., to beat up the kids they want to punish so they don't get in trouble for abuse.

And we wonder why they come out worse than when they went in.

This type of behavior is A typical in all US Juvenile Detention facilities... "Lord Of The Flies" mentality.

I have stories would leave you stunned and sadden. There's been a belief, a mind set for sometime in juvenile facilites, violence equals "scared straight" . Not only is this utterly false but violence and punishment ( that can only be describe as torture ) has the opposite effect.

TD3 said:

This type of behavior is A typical in all US Juvenile Detention facilities... "Lord Of The Flies" mentality.

I have stories would leave you stunned and sadden. There's been a belief, a mind set for sometime in juvenile facilites, violence equals "scared straight" . Not only is this utterly false but violence and punishment ( that can only be describe as torture ) has the opposite effect.

The level of dysfunction has been a dirty little secret for too long. I will never forget the story about the judge who was locking kids up because he owned an interest in the detention facility. Sickening that eveybody looks the other way until somebody ends up dead.