White supremacist prison guards work with impunity in Florida

A pickup truck with a Confederate flag-themed decal is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, the state’s prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, on April 16, 2021. According to public documents and interviews with a dozen inmates and current and former employees in the nation’s tenth largest prison system, Florida prison guards openly tout associations with white supremacist groups to intimidate inmates and Black colleagues, a persistent practice that goes unpunished and is allowed to fester in prisons throughout the U.S. (David Goldman/AP file) (David Goldman/AP)