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Kodak Black claims abuse in Miami prison

MIAMI _ Kodak Black has caused another social media storm as he posted a tell-all on Instagram about his few months of time in a federal prison. He alleges that the Federal Detention Center in Miami has abused him.

Bill Kapri, better known as Kodak Black, 22, was sentenced to almost four years in prison in November for lying on a background form when he purchased handguns at a Hialeah weapons store.

On Thursday, shortly into his sentence, Kapri released two lengthy Instagram posts on "a big conspiracy" going on in the Federal Detention Center and abuse he said he has suffered.

Kapri blames two detention center employees for his misery: Lt. F. Arroyo and Santiago Torres.

In his post, he says Arroyo "has been very vindictive towards me and I have a strong feeling it has something to do with me being set up, laced, bruised and brutally beaten two weeks before my court date."

When it comes to Torres, Kapri says she has used her position take away some of his prison privileges and mock him.

"She has been writing falsified incident reports on me, to take phone privileges that I get once a week while in solitary," the post said. "One morning, she pulled me out my cell to tell me she is going to 'Take my pretty little girlfriend off my visitation list'."

The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on Kapri's allegations. The Miami Herald also tried to speak to the employees Kapri named but was told they were not immediately available.

Kapri also said two days before Christmas he was denied a visit from his mother and that his mail is being tampered with.

"Not only does my incoming mail take an average of a month to get to me but they are messing with my outgoing mail as well. My family hasn't received none of my letters for the holidays. Which is borderline cruel and unethical," the post said.

Kapri also said one day he was given an empty tray for breakfast. He tried to bring it up with detention center employees but nothing was done.

"They are strategically killing me slowly in here," the post said. "I have been humiliated over and over again."

_Miami Herald

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