On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced two current and one former prison employee all belonging to the KKK planned to kill a black inmate upon his release.

The three men where: Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47 and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42.

Driver and Moran are current Department of Corrections correctional officers at the Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler. Newcomb was a corrections officer trainee who was later dismissed in 2013 for failure to meet minimum requirements.

They were all arrested on Thursday and charged with one state count of conspiracy to commit murder.

It was said last last year Driver gave a picture of the inmate to an FBI informant. At the time, the inmate was out on supervised release. Driver told the informant he had a fight with the inmate prior and both he and Moran wanted him “six feet under.”

Over the next several months the FBI informant meet with all three men and discussed plans to kill the man. One said he should be shot whereas another want to inject him with insulin and make it look like he died in a fishing accident.

Bondi had the following to say about it:

My statewide prosecutor, acting in conjunction again with the FBI, staged a homicide scene where they took photos of the victim who was out of prison, now, of course, making it appear that he had been violently murdered. Those photos were then shown to the corrections officers, who are alleged members of the KKK, and were very proud of this killing.

Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones said:

We are moving swiftly to terminate the employees arrested today and working closely with Office of the Attorney General to assist in their prosecution. Our department has zero tolerance for racism or prejudice of any kind. The actions of these individuals are unacceptable and do not, in any way, represent the thousands of good, hardworking and honorable correctional officers employed at the Department of Corrections.