Advocacy groups are organizing a protest at Florida’s largest women’s prison, Lowell Correctional Institution, Saturday morning in the wake of a violent assault, allegedly by a correctional lieutenant, that gravely injured a 51-year-old inmate, sources have told the Miami Herald.
The inmate, identified by sources as Cheryl A. Weimar, had suffered from both mental and physical disabilities and was having health difficulties when the officer allegedly slammed her to the ground and dragged her out of the prison on Wednesday.
Neither the Florida Department of Corrections nor the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which is investigating, has confirmed the name of the inmate or provided her condition. But several sources told the Herald that the inmate’s neck was broken in the attack.