VIDEO: Shooting & Riots: Coleman Federal Prison, FL - 10 Trauma Alerts / Airlifts, Etc. - SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons says eight male inmates have been taken to a hospital after a "large-scale fight" at a federal prison northwest of Orlando.
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Spokeswoman Traci Billingsley says the fight broke out in the recreation yard serving a high-security prison building at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, , which is approximately 50 miles northwest of Orlando and 35 miles south of Ocala.
Billingsley says no staff workers were seriously injured. She had no immediate information on the condition of the inmates.
Several emergency crews from Lake and Sumter counties arrived on scene shortly after 3 p.m. A spokesperson with Orlando Regional Medical Center confirmed that at least four people had been hospitalized and that they were expecting three others to be brought to the complex.
Numerous people were pulled out of the facility, five of which were loaded into separate ambulances. Patients arrived at ORMC, accompanied by federal agents.
Coleman Federal Correctional Complex is located just south of the central Florida town of Coleman, off of Highway 301. The complex consists of four facilities built to accommodate low to high security risk inmates.
MyFoxOrlando.com reported in October of 2007 on an incident at that same federal facility in which one inmate was stabbed and beaten to death. Osbaldo Farias, 36, and Gerardo Martinez, 29, were later charged with conspiracy to commit murder and first degree murder in the beating of fellow inmate Orlando Yazzie.
According to an investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, Farias and Yazzie were exercising in a recreation cage at the prison, when Farias stabbed Yazzie with a homemade knife approximately 13 times.
Martinez then joined Farias in the attack and the two reportedly kicked and stomped Yazzie for approximately forty-five minutes. He later died from his injuries.
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Coleman is Hiring!
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Coleman Federal Prison is home to Jewish Zionist media mogul Conrad Black
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COLEMAN - Citing security reasons, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons will not provide lists of inmates at federal correctional facilities - making it difficult to compile a comprehensive who's who at the multi-prison Coleman complex in Sumter County.
But sometimes a celebrity name tunnels out of the nation's largest federal prison.
For instance, Conrad Black, 63, an international newspaper mogul and British lord serving a 6 1/2-year sentence for mail fraud and obstructing, is a resident of Coleman's low-security prison where he is known as Inmate 18330-424. In August, a federal appeals court refused to reconsider an appellate decision upholding Black's conviction on charges that he stole $6.1 million from Hollinger International Inc., a Chicago-based publishing company now known as Sun-Times Media Group Inc. Its properties including the (London) Daily Telegraph. Rival newspapers have sought to obtain photographs and gossip about Black from inmates.
But many famous - and infamous - inmates do their time anonymously behind the complex walls.
Anthony Spero, 79, a feared, high-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family - one of five Mafia clans in New York City - served most of his life sentence at Coleman for racketeering and murder. He was shipped out in August to a Federal Medical Center in North Carolina, where he died Sept. 29, a prison spokesman said. Spero, who bred racing pigeons, was often described as an old-time gangster and preferred an inconspicuous presence.
This blog item was prompted by a USA Today sports story about Tampa Bay Buccaneers' running back Earnest Graham, whose younger brother, Brandon, is serving a 70-month federal sentence for trafficking cocaine. U.S. Bureau of Prison records show that Brandon Graham is an inmate in Coleman's medium-security facility, which is located near Bushnell about an hour's drive from Raymond James Stadium.
First for the reporter that
First for the reporter that went to the Coleman institution, we are Correctional Officers and not guards!
Second, it is good that more mayhem in the Federal Prison System is making the news -- not good that inmates and/or staff were injured --but not being run with enough staff this is what happens. After the Officer was stabbed to death at USP ...... California last year, the BOP might have started to staff the USPs but it appears that it is just more talk for people that get BIG BONUSES every year and are made to look good. If a staff member was injuried, then the comunity and anyone else that can and will help us stay safe and keep the inmate population at a manageable level. The BOP currently says that the staff to inmate ratio is 4 inmates to every staff, but when the non-essential staff are home at night and weekends it is more like 30 to one.
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Open-air prison planet