The family of a Florida prison inmate stabbed to death aboard a prison transport bus is now suing the state for failing to stop it. Eric Sexton was killed on the road somewhere between Jefferson County and Gadsden County and his family claims the correctional officers on board are partly to blame. We must warn you both this story and the pictures that go with it are graphic and disturbing. Eric Sexton was doing time for murder himself. 40 years in the Department of Corrections. He got aboard this prison transport bus on September 20th, 2011 and never got off. Sexton was one of 24 inmates who left Jefferson C-I that morning at 10:32. By the time the bus reached the Northwest Florida Reception Center in Chipley two hours and 16 minutes later, Sexton was dead. “I don’t think anybody should have to go through what Mr. Sexton went through regardless of his offense,” Sexton family attorney Robert Dwyer said in a phone interview Thursday. Read the full article.
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