Miami New Times
MIAMI, Fla. — The random beatdown is a staple of prison life, right up there with the occasional cafeteria riot and your first bad batch of wine made in a toilet. So the fact that Calvin Kingcade got stomped by a group of fellow inmates shouldn’t surprise anyone. Kingcade’s problem, however, was that those beatings never seemed to stop.
For several months in 2009, Kingcade, who had been arrested for domestic violence and armed robbery, found himself on the receiving end of a series of savage beatings from a group of inmates at the Miami-Dade pre-trial detention center, and he had no idea why. But then in November 2009, he says he found out that he was a target because the inmates thought Kingcade was a confidential informant. And the person who’d fed them that information, he learned, was one of the guards at the correctional facility, who’d told the lie to get revenge for a supposed theft. Kingcade is now suing.
He wants $10 million from the department and the guard he claims set him up, Victor Headly.
“Officer Victor Headly knew by ... slandering Calvin E. Kingcade’s name by saying he was a confidential informant would result in a brutal attack and possible death,” Kingcade’s lawsuit alleges.
The Miami-Dade corrections department did not respond to a request for comment.
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