Gov. Scott’s office defends not probing prison death [View all]
Source: Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
Gov. Scott’s office defends not probing prison death
By Mary Ellen Klas -
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
09/26/2014 9:27 PM
| Updated: 09/26/2014 9:50 PM
Gov. Rick Scott's office came to the defense of his chief inspector general Friday, claiming that the reason she couldn’t investigate claims of a suspicious inmate death brought to her by an anonymous letter nearly two years ago was because the case was under an open investigation.
But, according to a detailed timeline released by the media office in response to a Miami Herald report, there was no investigation pending in the gassing death of Randall Jordan-Aparo when Melinda Miguel received the letter.
The 27-year-old inmate died in September 2010 after being doused with chemical agents three times in 13 minutes while in a confinement cell. Florida prison officials and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement had closed the case in July 2012, concluding there was no relationship between the gassing and the inmate’s death.
Three months later, the governor received a letter from someone who identified himself or herself as a “high-ranking official” at the Department of Corrections. It alleged a cover-up had taken place over the deaths of Jordan-Aparo and Miami inmate Darren Rainey, and complained of “cronyism and corruption” in the agency.
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