From: DEMIGOD@SHAW.CA   
      
   MyWingsofanangel wrote:   
      
   > From: aka MAX (dnarsh@aol.comnospam)   
   > Subject: FL DOC Staff 26,000. Convicts 70,000 HEAD TO STAY    
   >   
   > Newsgroups: alt.prisons   
   > Date: 2001-07-30 18:23:04 PST   
   >   
   >   
   > State corrections chief optimistic about future   
   >   
   >   
   ..............   
   >   In July 1999, guards at Union Correctional Institution in North Florida   
   were   
   > accused of beating inmate Frank Valdes to death. One guard, who never was   
   > charged in the death, is in protective custody to keep him from harm as he   
   > testifies against other guards. "I think there is a whole different   
   attitude,"   
   > Moore said. "Use of force reports have gone down."   
   >   
   >   Moore and other top corrections officials said measures put in place after   
   > Valdes died include cameras that record every attempt to extract an inmate   
   from   
   > a cell or any use of force.   
   >   
   >   There is always peer pressure, Moore admits, but he thinks corrections   
   > officers have learned from mistakes and want accountability.   
   >   
   If you'd followed the story, you'd have known that both witnesses, who   
   were willing to testify against Valdes' murderers, where brutally   
   murdered too, about a year ago....   
      
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