Ashley Benefield Sent to Homestead Fl Correctional Women's Prison to Serve out 20 Year Sentence for Manslaughter, She Awaits Appeals Process.

Former swimsuit model Ashley Benefield, known as the Black Swan case, sent to Homestead Fl Correctional Women's Prison to serve out her 20 year sentence for manslaughter, she awaits appeals process. Ashley Benefield, the Lakewood Ranch woman convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband, will remain in Homestead Correctional prison while she awaits the outcome of her appeal. Homestead Correctional Institution in Florida has some air-conditioned areas, but many dorms lack air conditioning, raising concerns about inmate health and safety, especially during hot summers. HOMESTEAD CORRECTIONAL; A prison officer in south Miami-Dade found himself behind bars after having sex with an inmate, police said. Jerry Brawley III, 20, is facing a charge of sexual misconduct with a detainee. He was arrested Wednesday and still remains in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday. Brawley, a correctional officer at the Homestead Correctional Institution, was dismissed from his job and is currently under a criminal investigation by the Office of the Inspector General, the Florida Department of Corrections said. During a midnight headcount, Brawley told all the inmates in Atara Filmore’s wing to stay inside their cells, an arrest report read. He then had Filmore come to the officer station. When she entered, Brawley blocked the station’s window and turned off the lights. He demanded she have sex with him, the report read, and she complied.

Manatee County judge denied Benefield’s request for release on bond, ruling that she must stay in custody during the appeals process, according to court records. In an eight-page ruling, the judge determined that Benefield’s legal team did not meet the legal criteria to be approved for a bond release. Benefield, 33, sought bond while her appeal is pending after being sentenced in December to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting her husband, Doug Benefield, at her Lakewood Ranch home in September 2020.

 

'Black Swan' Ashley Benefield in court for bond hearing she got 20 years in prison on Manslaughter Murder conviction of Doug Benefield. Will Ashley Benefield flee Florida if she gets a $150,000 bond while awaiting the results of her appeal to the 20 years sentence in prison. Feb 9th, 2025, Bond denied for Ashley Benefield, Judge rules she does not have sufficient  links or ties to Manatee County Fl, neither she nor her mother who she lives with own property in Manatee County or anywhere in the state of Florida. The 20 year sentence on her Manslaughter conviction appears to be enough provocation for her to flee, so says the Judge.

December 3rd, 2024, Florida Statutes Convicted at trial, Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka "Christina Alessia", of Manslaughter with a Firearm 1st Degree she would most likely will be sent to Homestead Correctional or Lowell Women's Prison near Ocala Fl for violent offenders to serve her 20 year sentence. Ashley Benefield will be subject to 10 years of State Felony Probation after she is finally released in 2044 from State prison. December 5th is Ashley Benefield's birthday, she will be about 53 years old when she is released from State prison. Florida’s cesspool: Women's Correctional, where guards get a pass for raping women. The Justice Department excoriated Florida Corrections, having found that officers at Lowell, one of the largest women's prisons in the nation, have “raped, sodomized, beaten and choked female inmates.

Miami Herald Oct 8th, 2014, Bill Warner, a private investigator who has probed several cases at Lowell Prison, said the female inmates who are raped or sexually abused by male guards rarely report it out of fear that they won’t be able to see their children. About 65 percent of female inmates are mothers, and the prison also houses a population of pregnant inmates, he said. “Everyone I talked to — it’s always the same story. There are beat-downs and they are subjected to indignities like males strip-searching them,’’ Bill Warner said. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article2564576.html#storylink=cpy

Allegations of Female Prisoner Abuse at Lowell Correctional Institution Florida Prison and Homestead Correctional. Lowell Correctional “Hell Hole” in Ocala Fl. There are multiple allegations male correctional officers (CO's) at Lowell C.I. of which about 65% are male are using threats of loss of gain time to coerce the female inmates into sex acts in the bathroom areas, claims private investigator Bill Warner. I am no advocate for prison reform nor do I have any objections to Florida Judges imposing the harshest and longest prison time to fit the crime, but when those empowered to watch over and care for the incarcerated females become predators running a "good ole boy CO network" within the prison, it is time for a full blown investigation, said private investigator Bill Warner in 2014. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida spent 2 1/2 years producing their Dec. 22, 2020 report, which alleged that “sexual abuse of women prisoners by Lowell corrections officers and staff is severe and prevalent throughout the prison.”

Miami Herald Sept 2022: Warden ignored staff rapes of female inmates.  At Lowell Correctional Institution, where the systemic rape of female inmates by male guards has been documented over years by the Miami Herald and drawn a sharp rebuke by the Justice Department, a newly filed lawsuit says the sexual abuse is as pervasive as ever. The inmate lawsuit, dated Sept. 1 and citing a litany of specific incidents, targets Stephen Rossiter, Lowell’s warden, as a defendant. It does not claim he engaged in sexual misconduct but that he exhibited “deliberate indifference to a widespread pattern of sexual and physical abuse.”

Too Pretty for Lowell Prison: Swimsuit Model Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers, 33, Guilty Gets 20 Years for Manslaughter, she has been taken into custody by the Manatee County Sheriff Dept. Given the max sentence of 20 years, manslaughter with a firearm. After the verdict was announced, the judge overseeing the case revoked Ashley's $100,000 bond and remanded her to the custody of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. I worked at the Trump Election HQ on State Street Sarasota Fl from March 2016 to November 2016 doing security work and background checks on certain people. I was aware, in conversations with Ashley Byers in 2016 at the Trump HQ in Sarasota, that she had a Florida concealed weapon or firearm license. Apparently during one of the times when Ashley Byers first met Doug Benefield in 2016, she told him she had a gun concealed in her bra.

On Wednesday July 24 2024 Detective Chris Gillum, a domestic violence investigator, took the stand and says Ashley Benefield told him, 'I can't believe you're willing to allow Doug to kill me and the baby.' One MCSO detective said the Ashley would call the sheriff's office 30 to 40 times at one period to demand that Doug be arrested at a Hearing in front of the Judge. I knew Ashley Byers during pretty much all of 2016 when I was involved with the Trump campaign and she was the office manager at the State Street Trump campaign office in Sarasota, I never saw this side of Ashley.

Too Pretty For Lowell Prison: Ashley Benefield's Defense Asks Judge to Recuse Themselves from Case. Before the start of jury selection Monday, July 22nd 2024 Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers attorney asked the judge to voluntarily disqualify himself from the trial - accusing him of being biased against Ashley Benefield at a prior Stand Your Ground hearing. Judge Whyte dismissed Ashley Benefield's stand-your-ground claim last year.

Instead of placing the entire burden on the defendant Ashley Benefield, the FL Stand Your Ground law now requires a defendant to establish only a prima facie case of self-defense immunity. At that point, the burden shifts to the prosecution to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant does not qualify for immunity. Judge Stephen Whyte refused to dismiss the charges following a two-day “Stand Your Ground” hearing in July 2023. In his ruling, Judge Whyte wrote that the evidence “proves clearly and convincingly that the defendant is not entitled to court-ordered immunity from criminal prosecution, as she was not justified in using deadly force against the victim on September 27, 2020.” Despite the ruling, Ashley’s defense filed documents indicating they will be presenting evidence that the defendant suffers from “battered spouse syndrome.” Included on the defense’s witness list, along with expert witnesses, is Assistant State Attorney Suzanne O’Donnell, who is prosecuting the case. O’Donnell declined to press charges against Douglas after Ashley’s earlier claims of abuse.

Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers is a well known swimsuit model, she was featured on the cover of Fashion Magazine Issue 1 in December 2015, which led to several other fashion/swimsuit photo assignments. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers still has/had an active account at ModelMayhem.com under the name "Christina Alessia" as of July 23rd 2024. Too Pretty for Lowell Prison: Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers stand your ground defense ruled not applicable by Judge. Over and over Stand Your Ground has been used as an effective affirmative defense for killing someone in Florida. Dubbed by critics as a “get out of jail free card,” Florida's stand your ground self-defense law is controversial to say the least.

Without the 'Stand Your Ground' Affirmative defense Ashley Benefield had little defense for shooting Doug Benefield. There are a number of cases in Florida, such as the death of Trayvon Martin, where a defendant successfully used the stand your ground defense as justification for using deadly force. Judge Whyte dismissed Ashley Benefield's stand-your-ground claim last year. Four shots were fired by Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers at Doug Benefield – four .45 caliber casings were found on the master bedroom floor, a police affidavit said. A loose projectile was also found on the floor and two more were found embedded in the walls of the home.

Ashley Byers met Doug Bennefield, the day was August 25, 2016, he was 54 years old and Ashley was 24 years old. Remember this date. After their first meeting, they exchanged phone numbers and began to text each other. Doug met Ashley, a ballet dancer, at a Trump 2016 Republican Party fundraiser. The pair were married less than two weeks later after falling madly in love. She was 30 years younger than him.

A FORMER swimsuit model and ex-ballerina who allegedly shot dead her estranged husband in a fraught custody battle was a 2016 campaign office manager for Donald Trump. Ashley Christina Benefield (née Byers) 32, turned herself in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, after cops there found probable cause in the shooting of her husband for her arrest in Manatee County. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers convicted of fatally shooting her husband Doug Benefield, 59, on September 27 was a Trump Campaign Office Manager in Sarasota and a former Director of Florida Women for Trump in 2016. According to Ashley's journal, she was traveling on Trump's plane when Trump showered her with compliments. As she wrote: "He called me a 'bombshell'…'his little girl' and 'his baby.'"

Ashley Byers was on Trump payroll's as a Florida office manager getting $3,000 a month plus expenses, investigators said. She reportedly traveled on least one occasion to other states for Trump rallies, according to private investigator Bill Warner at 'Bill Warner Investigations', a sleuthing firm based in Sarasota Florida. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers still has/had an active account at ModelMayhem.com under the name "Christina Alessia" while managing the Trump campaign office in the Sunshine State for the president in Sarasota during 2016. The ModelMayhem.com page under the name "Christina Alessia" is still active in July 2024. 

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