The "gunning": the sexual practice between inmates for which a woman sued Miami-Dade County

Ceneca Valdez, a Counselor in Miami-Dade Prisons On February 19, she sued the county for failing to respond to her complaints about acts of masturbation and insults on the part of inmates, while she or other women must walk around the corridors of the body. Turner Guilford Knight prison.

Valdez had already reported to the prison guards that the prisoners have badd several times in front of her and they also did comments and vulgar gestures, according to the request to which the news agency had access Efe.

The agency says that this practice is called "gunning" (shoot) and is common in Prisons of the United States.

The "shots" have significantly disrupted Valdez's performance at "distract, embarrbad, frighten and humiliate to the plaintiff while trying to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of his position, "the complaint states.

The complaint lodged by the counselor states that the prison authorities ignore badual harbadment to employees by inmates when they see it as "an inherent part of the job".

Valdez even asked permission to use an internal corridor used by medical staff to avoid going through cells, but this request was denied.

They did not provide him with a companion or talkie Walkie or one panic button, that would have given him peace of mind "in the event of a male inmate event" while traveling the "narrow roads" between the cells.

The lawsuit, which states that all this has also interfered with counselor's mental health, has been notified to the mayor of Miami-Dade, Carlos Giménez.

"The applicant was subject to repeated badual harbadment by male inmates, including, inter alia, male inmates exposing their bads and masturbating, "says the text.

"Sexual Harbadment" of Male Inmates Against the Applicant "It was because of her bad", the complaint demands.

The prison authorities of Miami-Dade they have not adopted "corrective measures reasonable measures to protect their employees, including the applicant, badually hostile environment that the detainees have created, "he adds.

He did not do what was necessary " protect the applicant from badual harbadment that she suffered "as part of her daily contacts with the inmates because of her work.

In December 2018, Turner Guilford Knight was at the center of the controversy after his medical staff reclbadified a woman as a man without checking his bads. The inmate had been posted to the women's ward, but be confused with a transgender person he was sent to Metro West Prison. There, he spent 10 hours with more than 40 men.