“Just because you have an incident doesn’t mean you have a big problem,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri. He was responding to the recent murder of an inmate at the Pinellas County Jail in Largo. Fair enough–except for this part. We’re talking about cellmates. The 28-year-old killer was in for murder. The 48-year-old victim was in for trespassing.
Normally, the jail tries to keep violent and non-violent inmates separate. Off course they do. This time they didn’t. Whatever the details–this was appallingly negligent.