article_snippet: Inmates at a state prison in Florida have were allegedly stripped naked, sprayed with toxic chemicals, and had Inmates at a state prison in Florida beds taken away for little or no reason as part of a brutal disciplinary regime.
article_snippet: Prisoners at the Northwest Florida Reception Center, near Panama City, were reportedly beaten and even threatened with having Prisoners at the Northwest Florida Reception Center, near Panama City fingers broken while other guards manipulated surveillance cameras to perpetuate the harsh system which other guards called 'the program'.
article_snippet: Prison complex: The alleged abuse took place over years at the Northwest Florida Reception Center, above .
article_snippet: Using pepper spray - and in more extreme cases tear gas - is a legal and recognized punishment in the Florida prison system, used to subdue very disruptive inmates.
article_snippet: But, according to the reports, use of the dangerous chemicals - which are blasted repeatedly into inmate's cells through a flap - was taken to extremes at Northwest Florida.
highlights_snippet: Prisoners at Northwest Florida Reception Center allegedly mistreated .
  
highlights_snippet: Guards at facility near Panama City accused of routinely firing pepper spray and tear gas into cells for spurious and vindictive reasons .
  
highlights_snippet: Guards apparently referred to harsh disciplinary scheme as 'the program'
  One inmate - Rommel Johnson - died after being pepper sprayed in 2010 .