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Man Gets 20 Years For Murder At Century Correctional Institution
March 16, 2012
A Century Correctional Institution inmate was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for the 2010 murder of another inmate at the facility. He was sentenced as a habitual offender.
In January, John Scaife was convicted of manslaughter and battery upon a prison detainee by an Escambia County Jury.
On December 22, 2010, Scaife engaged in a brief verbal argument with fellow Century Correctional Institution inmate Donald Bart. Scaife then struck Bart once in the face, causing Bart to fall backwards and hit his head on the concrete floor. Three days later, Bart became unresponsive and subsequently died on December 26 due to bleeding within his brain and swelling of his brain. It was determined that Donald Bart had several nasal fractures as well as a fracture to the lower rear portion of his skull, and that these injuries were all a result of Scaife’s actions on December 22, according to testimony.
Scaife was serving a 12 year sentence from Polk County for a 2001 conviction on charges of burglary, grand theft auto and fleeing/eluding law enforcement. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, he has been in and out of prison since 1979 for a list of offenses that include burglary, robbery, aggravated battery, sexual battery and petty theft.
Bart was sentenced in 2009 in St. Lucie County to eight years for arson, torturing animals and burglary, and a five year sentence for a 2008 St. Lucie County conviction on marijuana charges.
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7 Responses to “Man Gets 20 Years For Murder At Century Correctional Institution”
Here we go…trial for a killer at taxpayers expense. Stop spending hard earned tax dollars to give room and board to these hard core offenders. I’d rather feed a mangy, dying dog.
This man should be put away for life because killing someone whether in or out of prison should be punished for the rest of his life. Now he will be in there with all of Mr. Bart’s friends and will go after them. They need to put him away somewhere on an island and all the rest of these killers and not put them back where they can do the same thing again. Killing is killing so what happened to the death sentence for a killer ? Whether a person is shot or knocked down hitting their head which causes their death it is all the same. Why didn’t they give him the death sentence instead of us taxpayers having to keep him a few short years and he will be released to kill one of us on the outside?
12 years or 32, I think Mr Scaife is going to rise above this little bump in his road and make the CCI family proud.
Both these men sound like very upstanding ciitizens.
Commited murder while in prison. Coivicted as a habitual offender. Someone tell me why we have to support this thing? He should be done away with!!
Nah – he didn’t learn a lesson. He just secured room and board for the rest of his life at taxpayers expense.
I’m sure he’s learned his lesson.