( CNN ) They used to do the guarding at Florida prisons . Now they 're the ones behind bars . Two Florida corrections officers and one former officer trainee have been charged in a plot to kill a former inmate who was getting out of prison , the Florida Attorney General 's office said Thursday . An FBI informant met the men -- Thomas Jordan Driver , 25 ; David Elliot Moran , 47 ; and Charles Thomas Newcomb , 42 -- after infiltrating a branch of the KKK : the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , CNN affiliate WJXT reported . Driver told the informant that he had gotten into a fight with the inmate and that he and Moran wanted him `` six feet under , '' according to court documents . To convince the suspects that the deed had been done , the FBI staged a fake homicide scene with the former inmate and took pictures to show them that he had been killed . `` When the FBI staged this crime scene and these photographs were shown to each of these men , they were happy about it , '' said Statewide Prosecutor Nick Cox . The three men are now facing up to 30 years in jail if convicted on one count each of conspiracy to commit murder . `` We will not tolerate nor will we ever remain silent over the violence of hatred embedded in prejudice in this country , '' Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said . CNN 's Joe Sutton contributed to this report .
The men are current or former Florida prison guards . They are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder .