Florida Prison Workers Accused Of Plotting To Kill Inmate
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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) – Three current and former prison employees were members of the Ku Klux Klan who planned to kill a former inmate who is black, according to Florida officials.
The employees planned the murder after inmate's release from prison as retaliation for a fight between him and one of the workers, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
Bondi's office says in a statement that Thomas Jordan Driver, David Elliot Morgan and Charles Thomas Newcomb each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Driver and Morgan are current employees of the Department of Corrections, and Newcomb is a former corrections employee. The state's statement says Driver had the fight with the inmate.
The case will be prosecuted in Columbia County in north Florida.
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