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Bay County Florida Boot Camp News
Antigen:
Conviction star shows it all
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... guards. Martin Lee Anderson died in January after he was kneed and
punched by Bay County Sheriff?s boot camp guards. Charlie Sheen ...
http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainm ... 77&k=99503
Chief says his hands were tied on camp's use of force
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... that's credible anymore,'' Barreiro said, referring to misstatements
Schembri has made, particularly in the case of 14-year-old Martin Lee
Anderson's death on ...
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ ... 264876.htm
EDITORIAL - Cover-up In Schiavo Case Precludes FDLE Accreditation
North Country Gazette - Chestertown,NY,USA
... considering the alleged handling of the Terri Schiavo case and most
recently FDLE commissioner Guy Tunnell?s actions in the Martin Lee Anderson
boot camp ...
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/arti ... erage.html
Too much boot
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... The videotape of Martin Lee Anderson's manhandling by burly guards
before being pronounced dead hours after being admitted to the Panama
City boot camp was a ...
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ ... 262840.htm
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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
--Thomas Brackett Reed
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Antigen:
Stop passing the buck
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Because the operator of the boot camp where Martin Lee Anderson was
roughed up by guards before dying hours later is Bay County Sheriff Frank
McKeithen, an ...
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/ne ... 273905.htm
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Forgiveness is divine. Forgetfulness is just a mental dysfunction.
--Antigen
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Anonymous:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14283798.htm
Law closing boot camps named for teen
Representatives passed a bill Thursday closing state boot camps and named it after a teen beaten by guards.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER AND EVAN S. BENN
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Martin Lee Anderson, the 14-year-old Panama City boy who died after being manhandled by guards at the Bay County Sheriff's Office Boot Camp, will join an elite group of other Florida children who met a tragic end:
His name will appear atop a new state measure intended to protect other kids from a similar fate.
The state House of Representatives voted unanimously Thursday to shut down the state's remaining military-style boot camps for juvenile delinquents, calling the budget item the ''Martin Lee Anderson Act.'' The provision replaces them with programs that stress education, counseling and aftercare.
Martin, who was convicted of joy riding in his grandmother's Jeep, entered the Panama City boot camp Jan. 5. He died hours after a group of guards punched and kneed him.
His death is under investigation by a Tampa-based special prosecutor appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush, and federal prosecutors are looking into the case as well.
State Sen. Tony Hill, a Jacksonville Democrat who has helped spearhead efforts by the state's legislative black caucus to hold guards accountable in the youth's death, called for ''justice'' in the case Thursday from the floor of the Senate, saying the teen was ``viciously murdered.''
Herald staff writer Marc Caputo contributed to this report.
Anonymous:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14248953.htm
CORRECTIONS CLEANUP
New prisons chief shakes up system
Decorated soldier Jim McDonough tries to turn around Florida's decayed prison system, which is reeling from multiple investigations and nipping at Gov. Jeb Bush's law-and-order legacy.
By MARC CAPUTO
So much for the shake up.
Google search on Jim McDonough DFAF
Anonymous:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/14241484.htm
Minor offenses at camp brought beatings
A smile, a mumble and other forms of nonviolent behavior resulted in force against teenage boys at a Florida sheriff's boot camp, a Miami Herald investigation found.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com
Views vary on how to keep juveniles' behavior in line
The teenage boys smiled, they shrugged and they smirked. They spoke without permission or they refused to speak at all.
That's all it took for the boys at the Bay County Sheriff's Office Boot Camp to provoke a swift and painful response from their guards. Even crying and ''whimpering'' brought harsh discipline.
The scenes were repeated over and over, 180 times over the past three years, at the juvenile boot camp in Panama City, according to Florida Department of Juvenile Justice records obtained by The Miami Herald under the state's public-records law.
In only eight of the 180 instances documented since January 2003 were the teenagers described as hitting guards, fighting with other youths, threatening to escape or trying to harm themselves.
The documents -- use-of-force reports written by the guards themselves -- show that the overwhelming majority of the youths were subjected to ''takedowns,'' hammer-fist blows and ''knee strikes'' for:
? Being unwilling or unable to perform rigorous exercises.
? Exercising without sufficient ``motivation.''
? Being ''insolent'' with guards.
? Speaking without permission.
? ``Breathing heavily.''
? ''Tensing'' themselves.
Boys were physically ''restrained'' for furrowing their brows, mumbling or gritting their teeth. On Christmas Day 2004, one boy was disciplined for smiling.
VIOLENT PUNISHMENT
KNEES, FISTS, THUMBS
USED FOR DISCIPLINE
Their punishments: knees jabbed forcefully into their thighs, hammer-fist punches to the arms, wrist twisting, and being wrestled to the ground. Another common tactic was the use of ''pressure points,'' in which guards used their thumbs to cause pain by pressing on sensitive areas behind the youths' ears or under their chins.
''I . . . observed offender become still and his breathing become shallow and I felt him tense his right arm. . . . I then applied a knee strike to his left thigh area,'' a sergeant wrote after one episode on Feb. 23, 2005.
In many of the cases, the guards used the tactics despite written orders by Department of Juvenile Justice chief Anthony Schembri, who in June 2004 banned the use of physical force except in extreme situations.
TREATMENT CRITICIZED
EXPERT FINDS `PATTERN
OF TORTURING CHILDREN'
Juvenile justice experts who reviewed the documents at The Miami Herald's request said the treatment of the youths was unjustifiable.
''What you have there is an administratively approved, systematic pattern of torturing children,'' said Ron Davidson, director of mental health policy in the psychiatry department of the University of Illinois at Chicago, who studied the 180 reports. Davidson has reviewed nearly 400 group homes, mental hospitals and juvenile justice facilities for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and other agencies.....................................
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