According to the Philadelphia Magazine, more than 5,000 text messages were exchanged, prompting the facility to fire the 9 white officers. Here are a few examples of the blatantly racist text messages exchanged among the guards:

• “To me a really good high is stomping the shit out of a nigger for no reason.”

• “No matter how they look at things, no matter how dressed up they get.. When they wake up tomorrow morning they’re still just NIGGERS.”

• When referencing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in the series of text exchanges, one of the messages read “Don’t forget his wife is a colored.”

The texts were written and exchanged on phones that were smuggled into the facility. According to the David Owens, the warden of the Camden County jail, the officers involved in the slew of racist texts represents a “small minority of rogue officers”, and says that in no way do the text message exchanges representing the hard work done on a daily basis by the hundreds of employees of the jail.”

The race soldier prison guards have been placed under investigation since late last year, when a shakedown of the staff occurred in November of 2014. More can be found on this story by following this link.

B. Clark