The Huffington Post | By Andy Campbell
Posted: 06/20/2014 11:34 am EDT
Updated: 06/20/2014 11:59 am EDT
Pro tip: Shooting yourself with a gun you smuggled into prison won’t get you lawsuit money or a reduced sentence.
We know this because Deshandre Billups and Kirk Cartwright know this. The two Florida inmates, along with five others, were arrested Tuesday in what authorities describe as a plot to sue the Florida Department of Corrections, according to My Fox Orlando.
The department began its investigation in March after Billups and Cartwright were shot with a .25-caliber Beretta inside the Columbia Correction Institution in Lake City. Cartwright, 33, and Billups, 26, told guards that they were shot by an unknown assailant while they were praying in their cell.