Production resumed quickly that time, but this time, the guards might actually be watching. Whitney, who is serving a sentence that ends in 2040, was caught with a cell phone before, and endured solitary confinement for 60 days as punishment.

After publication, the paper notes that silence ended when it received an unsigned statement from the FDC that vowed to investigate the video, insisting that “(t)he department uses every tool at their disposal to mitigate violence and contraband within our institutions.” The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) ignored all requests for comment until the Herald published its exposé on Oct.