According to the report, the Florida Department of Corrections has known about this pattern of staff sexual abuse at the prison since at least 2006. “Lowell has a long-standing pattern of criminal charges, discipline and documented allegations of staff sexual abuse,” the report reads. The investigation found Lowell and the FDOC are violating inmates’ Constitutional rights by failing to protect them from serious harm. Under the Eighth Amendment, a prisoner has the right to be reasonably protected from sexual abuse. “Sexual abuse is never acceptable, and it is not part of any prisoner’s sentence.”