A teen is beaten to death at a Miami jail.
- May 5, 2016
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Police weren’t alerted to beatdown until youth had died
It took a full day for the top medical official on duty at Miami’s juvenile lockup to read the “sick call” report on Elord Revolte, a 17-year-old who said he had been “stomped in his chest” during an Aug. 30 beatdown by more than a dozen detainees.
By then, it was too late.
“No intervention was needed,” the nurse manager explained to investigators, “as the youth had already passed away.”
Elord, who wasn’t taken to the hospital until just under 24 hours after the beating, became the second child to die in the custody of state juvenile justice administrators last year. He was the fourth to die since the Department of Juvenile Justice, in the wake of a horrific 2003 death at the Miami detention center, pledged that its officers would “treat every child as if he were [their] own.”
Late Monday, DJJ administrators released to the Miami Herald a 66-page inspector general report on Elord’s death. The report concluded that a dozen detention center employees — from front-line officers to the 126-bed lockup’s assistant superintendent — violated agency rules and procedures in the hours leading up to Elord’s death. Five employees have resigned or been fired and another seven were later reprimanded.
“The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice’s primary focus is to ensure the safety and security of all youths in our care, and our entire staff was saddened by the very sudden and tragic death of Elord Revolte,” Secretary Christina Daly said in a prepared statement.
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