Young Florida prison inmates face the “test of heart,” a brutal but apparently routine assault by other prisoners upon arriving in prison, the Miami Herald reports. Gesnerson Louisius, 19, filed a civil rights lawsuit last summer against several officials at Lancaster Correctional Institute after he was beaten and raped with a broomstick in May 2013, alleging that the attacks are part of ritual extortion “condoned by the agency.”
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