Anna Kepners stepbrother held at controversial private jail after judge slammed him for depravity and psychopathy
The baby-faced teen accused of sexually assaulting and killing his stepsister Anna Kepner is set to spend the next several weeks in a notorious Florida jail – a privately-owned co-ed facility that has faced accusations of staff corruption, inmate rape and wrongful death.Timothy Hudson, 16, was recently ordered by a federal judge to be taken into custody by the US Marshals and held at the Citrus County Detention Center, which is the only privately-run county lockup in Florida.The accused murderer’s parents tried to keep him out of jail while he awaiting trial, having him live with family members as part of his supervised release.However, this week, a federal judge ordered him to be locked up after citing the ‘depravity and psychopathy’ of his alleged crimes.He was originally charged as a juvenile, but the case was later sent to adult court.That led the judge to reconsider his bond conditions.
Hudson will be kept in the juvenile wing of the facility, which is about 75 miles north of Tampa.The 760-bed facility, run by private prison operator CoreCivic has been the site of several lawsuits and complaints of wrongdoing by staff.In March, five staffers – three correctional officers, a commissary worker and jail nurse – were indicted on federal bribery and contraband charges, the Justice Department announced.Two of the officers are accused of smuggling phones in for inmates – to the tune of $4,000 per cellphone – while the prison nurse and a third guard were allegedly caught with drug-laced paper and 400 oxycodone pills, respectively, that they planned to sell to jailbirds, the indictment documents state.The nurse, Nicole Knecht, had allegedly raked in $8,800 in bribes to her CashApp account before she was nabbed, according to the docs. Less than a month after the indictments, Citrus County Sheriff David Vincent held a public hearing to discuss the the possibility of terminating the county’s longtime contract with CoreCivic and having the sheriff’s o...