Graphic allegations in former U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent’s court documents Former U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent alleges the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been “subjecting him to conditions tantamount to psychological and physical torture” since he began serving a 33-month prison sentence in June 2009. He additionally alleges that at the Lake Butler Reception Center for intake into the Florida Department of Corrections he was physically and mentally abused by Florida state prison guards, forced to “helplessly” listen to the screams of a man being “violently raped” in an adjoining cell, and forced to “strip naked and perform a painful and repetitive series of humiliating exercises.”
Kent, a former federal judge in Galveston, is asking a judge to vacate and correct the sentence he’s currently serving in a Florida state prison. Kent’s allegations are contained in the motion to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence and in a graphic memorandum supporting the motion he filed Aug. 2.
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