On Thursday, Florida authorities arrested three members of the Ku Klux Klan, who worked at a Florida prison for plotting to kill a black prison inmate after his release.

Two of the suspects were identified as Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, and David Elliot Moran, 47, who both work as officers at the Florida Department of Corrections' Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler. The third suspect, 42-year-old Charles Townsend Newcomb, also worked at the facility before being fired in 2013 for failing to meet training requirements. Attorney General Pam Bondi also confirmed that the men are members of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

Officials say that the KKK members were planning to kill the black inmate, who they believe is infected with HIV and hepatitis, because he got into a fight with Driver and bit him.

According to an arrest affidavit, an FBI informant inside the Klan alerted authorities about their murder plot.

"Both Driver and Moran ... told the (confidential informant) that they wanted (the inmate) 'six feet under,'" the FBI's affidavit said, reports The Associated Press.

The informant recorded all three men making plans to murder the inmate, which ranged from shooting him to injecting with a lethal dose of insulin. The men can also be heard in the recordings refering to the man using a racial epithet.

Following the allegations, Florida Corrections Secretary Julie Jones said she was "moving swiftly" to fire Driver and Moran, who is currently a sergeant at the facility. "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 honorable correctional officers employed at the Department of Corrections," she said in a written statement.

Driver, Moran and Newcomb were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder. Driver and Moran are being held in Union County jail, while Newcomb is in the Alachua County Jail on a $750,000 bond.