Five Department of Detention and Corrections employees fired after separate incidents

LARGO, Fla. - Five Department of Detention and Corrections employees were fired after two unrelated incidents at the Pinellas County Jail.

First incident

The backstory:

Deputy Harwick was working at the jail and was assigned to monitor inmates with mental health issues.

On August 11, an inmate was in a single cell and refused to remove his hands from the food trap door where food gets passed through.

Hardwick is accused of grabbing a bottle of Lysol that he had brought to work that day and sprayed the inmate in the face while the inmate was kneeling down with his hands extended through the food door.

After spraying him, the deputy slammed the inmate's hands with the bottom of the Lysol can.

Other jail employees witnessed the incident, and it was also captured on video.

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