FLORIDA: Inmate reports threats by guard, turns up dead

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Latandra Ellington had weathered some of Lowell Correctional Institution’s harshest and most primitive realities, and was just seven months shy of freedom — and being reunited with her four young children.

But on Sept. 21, Ellington wrote a chilling letter to her aunt telling her she feared she wouldn’t make it out alive. One of the officers at the prison — she identified him as “Sgt. Q” — had threatened to beat and kill her, she wrote.

“He was gone [sic] beat me to death and mess me like a dog,’’ she wrote. “He was all in my face Sqt. Q then he grab his radio and said he was gone bust me in my head with it...’’

Ten days later, on Oct. 1, Ellington, 36, was dead. Corrections officials said Ellington, who had been serving 22 months for grand theft, was in confinement — separated from the general population — at the time of her death because the agency had taken her family’s concerns about the alleged threats “seriously.’’

Still, with no answers about how the death happened, the family hired an attorney and paid for a private autopsy. The autopsy, their lawyer said Monday, showed that Ellington suffered blunt-force trauma to her abdomen consistent with being punched and kicked in the stomach

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[DonCoquixote]

1. This is Florida

where the prisons take pride in being violent. Never forget, "cool hand Luke" was written about a Florida prison.

[RVN VET]

2. Murder is murder

Unless, of course, the broom is big enough and nobody notices the lump from the sweeping.

[RVN VET]

10. lump in the rug, i meant to say

[theHandpuppet]

3. Murder.

And I doubt we'll ever see the murderer held accountable.

[gopiscrap]

11. That's the problem with fucking cops and guards

they literally get away with murder. It's almost time to take matters in to our own hands!

[CaptainTruth]

4. That guard needs to be charged with murder.

Put him in a prison with a bunch of other inmates & let them know he abused & killed an inmate. I hate to say it, but be needs a taste of his own sick perverted medicine.

[malaise]

5. Well she sure didn't do that to herself

Murder!

[ReRe]

6. What decade is this?

This does remind me of Cool Hand Luke (as someone else deluded to.) Seriously, it reminds me of something that would happen in prisons back in the early 20th century, where violent psychopathic sadists served as guards. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[marble falls]

7. It just gets deeper and worse.

[davidn3600]

8. This is what happens when you hire power-hungry psychopaths to run your police and your prisons

[RVN VET]

9. lump in the rug