Softball, drunken orgies and a prison system run like the mafia. That’s what Florida’s former prison secretary says he inherited when he took over one of the nation’s largest prison systems two years ago.

In fact, on his first day on the job, James McDonough says he walked into his office — the same one his predecessor used — and there was crime scene tape preventing anyone from entering.

Party house where prison officials held orgies.

McDonough revealed a startling list of alleged abuses and crimes going on inside Florida’s prisons:

• Top prison officials admitting to kickbacks
• Guards importing and selling steroids in an effort to give them an edge on the softball field
• Taxpayer funds to pay for booze and women
• Guards who punished other guards who threatened to report them

“Corruption had gone to an extreme,” McDonough said, saying it all began at the top. “They seemed to be drunk half the time and had orgies the other half, when they weren’t taking money and beating each other up.”
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“I cannot explain how big an obsession softball had become,” he said. “People were promoted on the spot after a softball game at the drunken party to high positions in the department because they were able to hit a softball out of the park a couple times.”
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McDonough is a former Army colonel who commanded troops in Vietnam and Africa. He served as Florida’s drug czar before taking on the job as the head of Florida’s prison system, which oversees 90,000 inmates.

He left his post last Thursday as secretary of Florida’s Department of Corrections because, he says, he feels he has cleaned up the corruption. It’s time, he said, “to turn this over to law and order people that have made this their life’s goal.”

Video here.

Cripes! I’m speechless. Unbelievable!