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Miami Herald investigation: Young inmates beaten and raped in prison broomstick ritual | Miami Herald

13.9.15

Miami Herald investigation: Young inmates beaten and raped in prison broomstick ritual | Miami Herald: It was May 7, 2013, and Louisius, 19, a new inmate, was slammed in the back of his head with a bar of soap stuffed inside a sock. Six inmates pinned him down, and one grabbed him by his throat, as two others dragged him across the carpeted floor by his ankles, according to the department’s report on the attack.

The young prisoners, between the ages of 18 and 20, kept demanding that he pay them money to stop the beating, but Louisius refused. He tried in vain to wrestle his way out of the heap of inmates, who locked him in a chokehold and began to kick and beat him with more socks stuffed with soap.

“That’s OK. I have something for you,’’ said one inmate, identified by Louisius in the Florida Department of Corrections report as Robert A. Walker, a 20-year-old convicted rapist.

“Get the broom,’’ Walker said, according to the prison report. What happened next was crueler and more unforgiving than the crime that sent Louisius to prison.

Louisius wasn’t the only inmate that day, that year or that month, to suffer a beating by gang members in Florida’s youthful offender prisons. The extortion ritual is so common and well known by both inmates and corrections officers that it has a name.

It’s called a “test of heart.”


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