Prison Warden Fired For Allegedly Diddling Inmates, Threatening Guards Who Crossed His ‘Girlfriends’

An assistant warden at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida has been fired after he allegedly kept groups of girlfriends among the inmates, with whom he would trade sexual favors for contraband.

Since January 5th when Julie Jones took over as DOC Secretary for the state of Florida, 44 correctional officers have been kicked to the curb for misconduct, but Assistant Warden Marty Martinez isn’t some mere statistic.

If the allegations are true, this man was running a 24-hour-a-day sex ring, where he’d have inmates juggling his ‘boys’ as he reprimanded them, and would claim inmates as his ‘girlfriends’, who were treated so favorably they’d threaten other inmates throughout the prison.

Julie K. Brown of The Bradenton Herald has released a scathing report of the illicit allegations:

Each day, the female inmates at Lowell Correctional Institution would line up at the back gate waiting to talk to “Daddy.’’

In the afternoons, the prisoners would take turns visiting his office, passing him slips of paper and asking for favors like special bunk assignments, chocolates or time to liaison with their female partners.

Assistant Warden Marty Martinez had so many women who wanted to spend time with him that it not only interfered with the daily operation of the facility, it caused jealous fights for his attention among inmates, according to an investigation by the Department of Corrections released Thursday.

Lowell corrections officers told the department’s investigators that they were overruled, punished — and, in one case, even threatened — when they tried to discipline any of Martinez’s favorites.

“Nobody ever caught him in the act, but we all saw him locked in there with them,’’ a corrections officer, who gave a sworn statement to DOC investigators, told the Herald. It would be a crime for a prison staffer to engage in sex with inmates.

The 56-page inspector general report describes in detail how Martinez would spend extended periods talking to young, pretty white or Hispanic women on a daily basis. One sergeant talked about how Martinez would lean against a fence, chatting up inmates and would “grasp his groin and ‘adjust his boys’ [genitals].” Others described seeing him lying prone on a bench, commiserating with attractive prisoners. When guards counseled inmates known to be close to the assistant warden, the inmates would threaten to report the corrections officers to “Marty.”

Officers and inmates said he rarely spoke to inmates who were unattractive. He frequented the Wellness Center, where one of his favored inmates taught aerobics, several witnesses said. He often sat and watched the prisoners, clad in their gym shorts, participate in a Zumba class.

Martinez’s own staffers described how he squired a parade of young women around the compound and invited some of them into his office and locked both doors. The women, who were overheard calling him “Marty’’ and “daddy,’’ would stay in his office for between 10 and 60 minutes, the staffers said.

The probe was begun after one officer, John Meekins, went to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and filed a police report. He said he had been threatened with harm after conducting a search of two inmates’ property, seizing an unusually large amount of contraband. The search, standard procedure, infuriated Martinez because, Meekins and other officers alleged, the two women were Martinez’s girlfriends.

“You’re going to get your ass beat in the parking lot after work,’’ Martinez allegedly told Meekins in front of two other officers.

Martinez told Meekins that all the officers and sergeants on the shift were “pissed off” at him and that they would retaliate by beating him up.

Now how in the hell are we supposed to view ‘Orange Is The New Black’ as a work of fiction when we’re shown that this shit is real, and is happening every day across the nation?

This alleged creeper was forcing women already incarcerated and stripped of their rights to call him ‘daddy’, and trade him sexual favors for chocolate? Just think how broken down you have to be as a human being to gargle some cock n balls for a piece of chocolate? If the allegations are true, this man is a fucking monster, and deserves the full weight of the law to come crashing down on his ‘boys’.

For more on this story you can head on over to The Bradenton Herald or The Orlando Sentinel.