BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— A former education supervisor employed at Florida State Prison was sentenced to 95 months in prison for raping an inmate in 2019.
Antonio Lebaron Carlisle, 47, pleaded no contest to sexual battery and to sexual misconduct with an inmate.
According to court papers, the victim said he walked to Carlisle’s office to get information about furthering his education.
“They began to discuss the program for (the inmate) when Dr. Carlisle began to discuss more personal things,” wrote DOC Inspector Daniel Gonzalez in a sworn complaint. “Dr. Carlisle then revealed to the inmate that he (Carlisle) was a homosexual.”
The investigator wrote that the inmate became defensive and angry, and that the two men began to argue.
“Dr. Carlisle then got up from his desk, Gonzalez wrote, “(The victim) believed Dr. Carlisle was going to walk out of the office.”
Instead, the supervisor lunged at the inmate, and choked him until he was unconscious.
“When he came to, (the victim) was lying on the ground,” wrote Gonzalez. “He knew something was wrong, and felt pain…Dr. Carlisle was yelling at him telling him to get up, clean himself up and threatened him not to say anything to anyone.”
The inmate instead called a prison rape hotline and reported the incident.
In February 2020, DNA tests confirmed the inmate’s allegations and Carlisle was arrested.
A Jacksonville television station reported that Carlisle was accused of a similar crime in Jacksonville in 2002, but the charges were dropped after the victim stopped cooperating with prosecutors.
WJXT said that in that case, the victim told investigators that Carlisle held him down while another man sexually assaulted him for five minutes.
At the time of the August 2019 assault, Carlisle was also the senior pastor at Greater True Vine Missionary Baptist Church in Lake City.
