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43 Children Stun-Gunned At Jail Take Your Child To Work Day

Written by News One on May 16, 2009 10:51 am

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From the Miami Herald

A total of 43 children were directly and indirectly shocked by electric stun guns during simultaneous ”Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day” events gone wrong at three state prisons, according to new information provided Friday by the Florida Department of Corrections.

Also, a group of kids was exposed to tear gas during a demonstration at another lockup.

Three prison guards have been fired, two have resigned and 16 more employees — from corrections officers to a warden — will be disciplined due to the incidents that unfolded April 23, said DOC Secretary Walt McNeil. An investigation is ongoing.

None of the children in any of the incidents required medical attention or was notably harmed, McNeil said. He said the children, who ranged in age from 5 to 17, were all children of prison officials.

In nearly every case, the guards had permission from parents or grandparents to administer the ”electronic immobilization devices,” McNeil said.

”I can’t imagine what these officers were thinking to administer this device to children, nor can I imagine why any parent would allow them to do so,” McNeil said. “This must not happen again.”

McNeil called the episode ”embarrassing” for the nation’s fourth-largest prison system. It has been rocked by far more serious scandal.

A McNeil predecessor, Jimmy Crosby, is incarcerated in a federal prison for taking bribes. Other guards were busted in a steroid ring, rampant pilfering, misusing inmate labor, and beer-soaked brawls stemming from a cutthroat culture of interprison softball games, in which a semi-pro baseball player was given a no-show job to help one institution win on the diamond.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    Cops are dumb

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/upstart_22/ upstart_22

    “Take your child to work day” should exclude those working in correctional facilities. There are some things children don’t need to learn: like how a stun gun feels or how much tear gas burns.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    A lot of police have always made them feel like gods.Above the laws of god and man.they believe that anything they want,they can have including other mens wives.They are very threatening and bullying. þo them, others pain is funny.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LeroyG1/ LeroyG1

    People r to soft now a days. U al sound like they locked kids up and were giving them jail tats an lifting weights. Come on America what happend to us.Maybe if they showed them how to carve shanks and watch men get raped or let the join the brother hood, I’m sure that would have been much better

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Strong_Mind34/ Strong_Mind34

    These kids were aged 5 to 17 years old. They definitely did not need to have this done to them. It is wrong…Not to make jokes but I hope that these kids will remember their experience and will never find themselves in there for real…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    WOW TRUE BLUE
    SCARED STRAIT(SCUUUUUURED STRIAT)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    OPPS SPELLED IT WRONG
    SCARED STRAIGHT(SCUUUUUUUURED
    STRAIGHT) FO REAL TIP

    SO WHO WERE THE KIDS BELONG
    TOO BLACK FOLKS(PERENTS)
    ”embarrassing” for the nation’s fourth-largest prison system

    NO EMBARRASSING TO WHITE AMERICA TO A LOUD THIS TO TAKE PLACE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LipGlossJunkie/ LipGlossJunkie

    Idiots. The prison sytem, the guards, & the parents who allowed permission.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_Lee_/ _Lee_

    … Im guess CPS gonna get involved… lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NjABS/ NjABS

    Their blowing it outta proportion….Nobody got hurt and I can almost guarantee those kids wanted to get tased. Just to do it.

    Whats funny is the DOC Secretary hiring a baseball player to win the company softball game and the drunken brawls that ensue afterwards. Good times!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mZbOsS09/ mZbOsS09

    WTF were they thinking, doing that to children, stupid,stupid, shame shame, America is something else !

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PharaohXI/ PharaohXI

    LMAO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    aw Lawd….i officially done heard it all

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sketch-of-Bmore/ Sketch-of-Bmore

    S**T IN SOME CASES SOME KIDS MAY NEEDED THAT AND THEIR PARENTS COULDN’T DO IT LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AJyAnt1/ AJyAnt1

    HEY OBABMA has ALREADY USING the military to train local police on house to house combat. He had implemented thru the EXPLORERS program, boysscouts, etc. for our children to police us..So soon you’ll see youth stunning civilians and detaining them for the feds…..OBAMA AINT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE hes for WALLSTREET. and he’s fast moving toward MARTIAL LAW……

    INFOWARS.com

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Louis77/ Louis77

    If this story was supposed to make me outraged, FAIL!!!

    Who cares? If 43 lil bastards got shocked, I’d say at least 20 of them needed it. It was an accident, so stop trying to make it a big story, you obsessive diaper-sniffers (LOL)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jmurph904/ Jmurph904

    I am only kidding when I say this but some children are so bad they have evolved beyond the belts and extension cords so this just MIGHT be the solution lol.

    In regards to this article though what happened to these kids just shouldn’t have happened. It’s not something people should be outraged about but it still shouldn’t have happened.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nigafalyfe/ nigafalyfe

    @yoll below me
    negros need to peep what they write before they hit the post button. sound stupid more than anything…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/spill-the-beans/ spill-the-beans

    the warden needs to be fired…disciplined means they keep their job till the media coverage die down.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/girlreppin313/ girlreppin313

    WTF!!!!Dumb mutherf*ckeraz who gives people the right to do that to their own children.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Beautiful_Empress/ Beautiful_Empress

    first of all this is not beleievable to me….its quite obvious that the guards said that the prisoners gave them permission to shock their children as a coverup…..secondly shocking children is not a form of discoplin that should b performed on a child its harmful….wut happened to the old fashion way of using the belt…….Jmurph not a smart thing to say…even if its a jk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ANIVAL2SORTO/ ANIVAL2SORTO

    The police are dumn i hate them f**ks who are bad cops and think thye have power or gods they are nothing but abusing they power in the name of justice and freedom i would love to see them get vanquished*evil grin* >:)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VANITY666BONET/ VANITY666BONET

    WELL DONT CALL THE COPS WHEN SOMEBODY BREAK IN UR SHYT OR UR HOES R RAPED

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/girl_nxt_dor/ girl_nxt_dor

    This is very strange an shocking story, specially the part of permission given to use stun guns, why would even this be a part of permission?

    Also, Beautiful_Empress person….can you actually read? Your comment is very disturbing as well….lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tallsensation65/ Tallsensation65

    Is this what their doing with our tax dollars torturing children? It just goes to show you “some people” shouldn’t be allowed to have children.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    I JUST CAN’T GO THERE… I WANT TO BUT I WONT!

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