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BEYOND PUNISHMENT: A Miami Herald investigation of Lowell Correctional Institution


The Miami Herald continues to blow the Florida Department of Corrections wide open with their newest investigative series. I-Team investigation into corruption and sexual abuse in the largest women’s prison in the nation, Lowell Correctional.

Many thanks to Journalists Julie K. Brown & Emily Michot

Watch the video and listen to the interviews: 

Miami Herald Beyond Punishment

read the articles: 

Department of Corrections criticizes Miami Herald series on Lowell

Statement from FLDOC:  FLDOC Statement in PDF

Cruel and Unusual Deadly abuse in Florida’s prisons

Bartered sex, corruption and cover-ups behind bars in nation’s largest women’s prison

When an inmate gets pregnant by a corrections officer

The assistant warden who got too close to the prisoners

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