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White Supremacist Groups Continue to Infest Florida DOC

Loaded on Feb. 1, 2022 published in Prison Legal News February, 2022, page 40
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Racial Discrimination. Location: Florida.

For at least the second time in four years the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) is making headlines for connections between its employees and white supremacist groups.

In July 2021, when sixteen members of a white supremacist gang were arrested—on a racketeering indictment that included charges of murder and kidnapping—prosecutors ...

 

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