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About 40 Inmates Involved In Century Prison Disturbance, Injuries Reported
August 3, 2018
Dozens of inmates were involved in a disturbance Thursday night at Century Correctional Institution.
“There was a disturbance involving approximately 40 inmates in a dorm at Century CI,” Patrick Manderfield, press secretary for the Florida Department of Corrections, told NorthEscambia.com. “Due to the swift deployment of institutional staff and FDC response teams, the situation was quickly brought under control. A small number of staff and inmates received minor injuries.”
Manderfield said the department is review the incident and assessing inmates for disciplinary action or transfer to other facilities.
Century Correctional Institution was place on “restricted movement”.
Additional details have not been released.
Pictured: Inside two different dorm types at Century Correctional Institution. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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19 Responses to “About 40 Inmates Involved In Century Prison Disturbance, Injuries Reported”
Turnover is a county wide problem. Low wages. Lack of raises.
People don’t want to work for minimum wage when they can go steal or sling door and make more.
Richard L. Walker you do understand that people in prison are there for a reason, many of them are violent people with no respect for authority, it only takes a couple of them to set off a major situation quickly. Prison is a bad place and not a day spa.
And in response to Mark, the turnover is ridiculous, they lose them nearly as fast as they hire them.
When? Oh when will they staff enough workers in this prison? It was ordered by the federal government years ago. I just do not understand.
I understand that there are some of those who are commenting on here have first hand knowledge of what has gone on behind the gate. I will be happy when this place is in our rear view mirror, but for now, there are some good people there that worked their rears off to contain this “disturbance” and did so in a very timely manner! Why not applaud their actions instead of crapping on the institution, Rick Scott, etc.
I am NOT a Rick Scott fan, but this runs deeper than him. People don’t take pride in their work anymore, it’s all about the paycheck and not about coming to work and earning that paycheck. When they do come to work, they are too lazy to do their jobs and if you don’t think that those inmates don’t notice, you are sorely mistaken! I have referred to them as “2-year-olds in adult bodies” for years. They notice EVERYTHING and will push you to your limits every day! This is NOT a job to take lightly, this is a job that could seriously harm you or other staff if not done correctly. When you don’t show up to do your job, you have weakened the shift!
This “disturbance” will be sorted out and things will happen to “punish” those involved, per policy. I guarantee, that it is business as usual behind the gate tonight.
I pray that those with minor injuries heal quickly and I pray for the safety of each and every staff member behind the gate of CCI.
I’m really glad I’m no longer there. After 22 years, it just keeps getting worse. There are some really good staff there, and some really lazy ones. The inmates are using drugs that are harder to detect and are really messing up their minds. Look up, on you tube, and watch how people react on fake dope. Now think about spraying bug spray on it and smoking it. That is the problem.
From hearing and dealing with this place for years I do believe this is a failure on the governors doing. After changing so much and wasting so much money on dumb ideas. The dept of corrections just went through a uniform overhaul were they changed everything from the color scheme to the logo. A overhaul not needed because the existing uniforms were perfectly functional and the logo was fine. We wasted tax payer money doing this when we could have trained and employed more staff for locations such as century that have been undermanned for years now. Officers having to deal with this. Yes there is a known occupational hazard but when the leadership looks the other way instead of addressing the issues. Like the safety violations that linger or the maintenance issues of a outdated and run down fleet of vehicles. Cellphone jammers can’t be used because it’s “a violation of prisoners rights”. They’re in prison. How bout the grand idea of giving prisoner tablets to access the internet so they may email their families. Yes. The same program that recently was in the news because prisoners in another state hacked and shut down systems Yes they are humans but prison is a punishment. Not a corrective action or place to live for free. You screwed up and lost your rights. Just because our governor holds prisoners near and fear because he has family in prison in another state we leave our facilities on a limb that can no longer support its own weight and is a ticking bomb. When and if these prisoners get the notion and act. Hell will be to pay because they have weapons and they outnumber our loved ones in overwhelming odds. Even in the military we know to keep the odds in our favor. 3 of us to 1 of them
I only want to know know a single fact.
Is this prison privatized?
If so, that needs to stop. If not, the warden and staff might be checked closely to see if they incited the trouble themselves.
Just lock em in a wing at a time and open the cells. They’ll kill each other off and we can turn off the lights and water and save the tax payers a bunch of money. To top it off they won’t be back on the street to cause trouble again.
When I was Medical Secretary at Century CI The Honorable Jeb Bush was Governor and he initially started the route to privatize medical health and downsize personnel. We need to pray for our prison employees daily County, State and Federal.
What back when chain gangs were still used and they didn’t ask questions if you ran. So mid 40s if you realy want a time frame but take it as mustuerd minde gets fuzzy with age.If your in prison chances are your not a nice person.
Yet another problem at CCI. Northescambia.com has done an excellent job in keeping us informed. The Florida legislation should take immediate action.
Privatize the state prison system, that’s insanity… Those prisons become a business… And all businesses are always looking to expand… Who would, in their right mind support such a policy…
If you really want in mates to suffer, then privatize prisons. Of course they’d be more dangerous however, can’t have everything you want.
Mike Honcho–when ere inmates scared of gaurds in FL. ?
I spent 17 years working at Century C. I. They have over 2000 inmates in 8 dormitories. Those dorms have 2-4 wings and each wing holds over 70 inmates. If the disturbance is happening around you, you are involved. Considering that, 40 inmates “involved” in a disturbance we know nothing more about, is a serious but minor event. Don’t panic. It’s all part of the job.
We put too many dopes and mopes who are non violent into prison. It does not matter who is governor. The legislators have to end the war on drugs and focus on violent criminals. As a taxpayer, I am tired of paying to house dopes and mopes who want to harm themselves, but we criminalize their behavior. We are being bankrupted by 50k a year cost to house, feed, and provide medical benefits to stupid non violent people.
What a suprise, Chilly wants to blame Rick Scott for something a bunch of thugs did in prison, that makes so much sense. Anything run by the government is full of waste, privatize it, and the state will get the same job done for a fraction of the cost. Capitalism is a hard thing for the Rick Scott haters to comprehend.
Remember when the convicts were scared of the guards and going to prison was actually a punishment
Thanks Rick Scott for destroying the Dept of Corrections, You have laid off or Ran off all the experienced officers. Why don,t you go ahead a privatize it and finish destroying it.. Privatize it and turn it over to your buddy who is the CEO
at GEO group Corrections, whom you have private dinners with. in your home in Boca Raton .
Rick Scott please just go away. He Took the fifth amendment 75 times in a deposition in the largest Medicare Fraud case in history.
settled several million dollar law suits with our tax dollars for violating Florida Sunshine laws for open government, Google the firing of Gerald Bailey, former FDLE director
Total disgrace what he did to a man with a impeccable law enforcement career..Keeps all his assets hidden in a blind trust in his wife’s name.
Changed your automobile insurance, benefiting insurance companies so you only have 14 days after you have a accident. to file a medical claim, who does that benefit. Scott has already spent five million on TV ads. Spent millions of our tax dollars building a sea wall around a golf course in south Florida.. Yet he vetoed most projects in our area. Scott has destroyed the department of health , department of corrections, remember when the tornadoes hit century , Scott was in Pensacola and would not even go to century to check on those folks. He privatized Silver Springs in Ocala Now looks like a dilapidated ghost
town. I was there. Tried to cut funding for in home care for disabled children and put them in senior nursing homes , thankfully a judge stepped in and stopped it. need I say more. Please Vote.
let me see, they are in a bad situation and they want to make it worse. solitary confinement and bread and water for thirty days might help.