The News Journal buried today the story of former Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mike Crews telling the media that the governor’s office interfered with his operations. Other daily newspapers around the state placed the story on their front pages.
The Miami Herald interviewed Crews, who headed the agency for nearly three years. The agency was under fire over allegations that a mentally ill inmate had died in a scalding shower as part of a punishment ritual by officers at Dade Correctional Institution.
He told the paper that Gov. Rick Scott’s chief of staff, Adam Hollingsworth, had asked him to “take a bullet for the governor.”
It was July 10, 2014. Mike Crews, then-secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, was in the thick of a public firestorm over allegations that a mentally ill inmate had died in a scalding shower as part of a punishment ritual by officers at Dade Correctional Institution.
The former prisons chief gave a litany of complaints against the governor’s staff, including writing press releases that said things he didn’t say.
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