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Prisons and Jails

Sheriff’s Court and Detention Division Chief Engert Graduates from Florida Health Policy Leadership Academy

April 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Chief Engert. (© FlaglerLive)

On April 25, Court and Detention Services Chief Daniel Engert graduated from the Florida Health Policy Leadership Academy during a ceremony at the University of Florida/Institute of Food Agricultural Sciences extension in Bunnell.

Bill Making It Easier for Exonerated People to Be Compensated Moves to Senate Floor

March 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Many Florida prisons have no air conditioning, leaving prisoners broiling in an ongoing heat wave, and the state has no plans to change the fact beyond cosmetic allowances. (© FlaglerLive)

Legislation to help Florida exonerees seeking compensation for their being wrongly imprisoned is bound for the Senate floor after receiving uniform support through three committee stops.

Florida Lawmakers Look to End Ban on Compensating Wrongfully Imprisoned If They Have Prior Felonies

February 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Florida is the only state with a wrongful incarceration compensation program that excludes people with prior felonies, a restriction that makes the vast majority of exonerees in the state ineligible for payments. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 91 people in Florida have been exonerated since 1989. Five of those exonerees have received compensation.

Iris Scanners Will Now Identify Inmates at Flagler County Jail

February 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Detention Commander Louis Miceli demonstrates the Inmate Recognition and Identification System. (FCSOP)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announces the implementation of the Inmate Recognition and Identification System, known as I.R.I.S., at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility. This cutting-edge technology (similar to point-of-entry technology now used at Universal Orlando Resort) is designed to enhance public safety and ensure the identification of individuals booked into the jail.

$8.2 Million Will Pay for National Guard Used as Florida Prison Guards

February 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

One of the prison's guard towers. (© FlaglerLive)

A legislative budget panel Wednesday approved transferring $8.2 million to pay for the continued deployment of Florida National Guard members at state prisons until June. National Guard members have worked at prisons for more than two years as the correctional system has struggled with high job-vacancy rates and an increase in the number of inmates.

Court Sides with Prison Guards Accused of ‘Deliberate Indifference’ in Restrained Inmate’s Death

January 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

One of the prison's guard towers. (© FlaglerLive)

A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, upheld a district judge’s ruling granting summary judgment to 10 Lake Correctional Institution officers. The estate of inmate Jose Gregory Villegas filed the lawsuit, but a district judge and the appeals-court majority found that the officers were entitled to what is known as qualified immunity.

Flagler County Jail Reaccredited Is Reaccredited, One of Just 37 in the State to Have Distinction

October 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

FCAC Executive Director Stacy Lehman (L) and Chair of the Board of Commissioners Chief Laura Bedard (R), award Chief Daniel Engert and Sheriff Rick Staly the Certificate of Reaccreditation.

The Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility–the county jail–became an accredited correctional facility on October 2, 2018. It was reaccredited on October 6, 2021, and most recently reaccredited again on October 2. Accredited facilities are required to be assessed and reaccredited every three years to ensure they maintain the requirements of accreditation.

Sheriff Staly and Chief Daniel Engert Launch 2nd Opportunity Re-entry Program at County Jail

August 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Chief Daniel Engert, left, and Sheriff Rick Staly addressing inmates at the county jail. (FCSO)

August 14 marked the launch of a new program at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility (SPHIDF) that offers a fresh start in life after incarceration. Sheriff Rick Staly joined Daniel Engert, FCSO Chief of Court and Detention Services, and Cathleen Relyea, Offender Programs and Services Supervisor, in introducing the 2nd Opportunity Re-entry Program to the SPHIDF inmates.

Flagler Sheriff’s Office Implements Rapid DNA at Jail with $250,000 State Grant

June 20, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Rapid DNA machine at the county jail. (FCSO)

Rapid DNA analysis is a fully automated process of developing a DNA profile from a mouth swab. Rapid DNA takes a qualifying arrestee’s DNA profile and automatically enters it in CODIS/NDIS during the booking process. The arrestee’s DNA sample is then searched against all unsolved crimes within 24 hours. The results are usually returned in one or two hours. No human laboratory scientist is needed.

Chief Engert: How Flagler County Jail Stepped Up to Ensure Brendan Depa’s Continuing Education

April 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Brendan Depa, in the orange shirt, arriving for a hearing in court last June, before his transfer to the Flagler County jail. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and its jail were not responsible for the education of Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School student arrested over a year ago on a charge of aggravated battery of a school employee. Nevertheless, the jail, under the supervision of Chief Daniel Engert, has ensured that a team of volunteers and professionals have continued Depa’s education, with notable and continued successes.

Audit Reveals ‘Urgent Need’ to Improve Florida’s Prison System, But State Budget May Balk

February 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

One of the prison's guard towers. (© FlaglerLive)

Concerned about dilapidated buildings in Florida’s statewide prison system, the state Senate has set aside $100 million a year for 30 years to address repairs and new construction, a total of $3 billion. But the state House hasn’t following suit. That sets up a fiscal clash as House and Senate lawmakers craft Florida’s 2024-25 budget.

Sean Barry, 33, Found Hanging at County Jail and Dies at Hospital. He’d Been Waiting for a Drug-Treatment Bed.

September 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Sean Barry and his sister Danielle Brown, and Barry by himself. (Danielle Brown)

Sean E. Barry, a 33-year-old resident of Butternut Avenue in Bunnell’s Mondex, died at AdventHealth Palm Coast on Thursday afternoon, five days after he was found hanging in an apparent suicide attempt at the Flagler County jail. Barry was not at the jail on a criminal charge, but on a Marchman Act motion his sister had filed with the court in early August as she sought to get him the drug treatment help he needed. 

Flagler County Jail Wins National Innovation Award for Initiatives Preparing Inmates’ Re-Integration

August 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Chief Engert. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s jail has been awarded the 2023 Innovation Award for medium-sized facilities by the American Jail Association. Sheriff Staly, Court and Detention Services Chief Dan Engert, and other Detention Services members accepted the award at AJA’s 42nd Conference and Jail Expo in Omaha, Nebraska during the awards banquet.

Flagler Jail’s Inmate Medical Savings Program Posts Results

June 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

(© FlaglerLive)

This fiscal year to date, using Prime Corrections to review and adjudicate offsite inmate medical bills, Prime has processed a total billed amount of $1,413,133.02. Prime retains a portion of the savings: $719,906.02, or 51% of the total costs this fiscal year.

Detention Facility Wins 2023 American Jail Association’s Innovation Award

May 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly and FCSO Detention Staff at AJA Awards Ceremony. (FCSO)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility (SPHIDF) has been awarded the 2023 Innovation Award for medium-sized facilities by the American Jail Association.

Gabriella Alo, in Jail Over Beating and Hit-and-Run, Is Tased in Confrontation with Deputies

January 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Gabriella Alo in a 2020 photo from her Facebook page, right, and in her January booking photo at the Flagler County jail.

Gabriella Alo, the 18-year-old woman facing four felony counts stemming from allegedly brutalizing a boy and running over a woman earlier this month, had to be wrestled to the floor and tased into compliance at the Flagler County jail on Sunday after refusing to comply with orders from corrections deputies.

Flagler Jail Eliminates All Hard-Copy Mail to Inmates as Scanning and Tablets Replace Paper

January 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The sort of tablets that have replaced almost all hard-copy communications materials at the Flagler County jail, from Smart Communications, streams movies, music, games and educational materials in addition to communications to and from home. (© FlaglerLive)

All hard-copy mail delivery to the Flagler County jail’s 225-some inmates has been replaced by scans of mail. It is part of a sweeping change in the handling of inmate mail across the state at least 14 other states as prisons and jails cut down on incoming materials. The switch has drawn sharp criticism from prisoner advocates and strong support by those implementing it, as in Flagler. 

Two Inmates at Flagler Jail Who Attempted Suicide Within 24 Hours Each Had a Disturbing Backstory

December 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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On Dec. 8 and 9, in the span of 24 hours, detention deputies–and an inmate in the first case–intervened and halted the attempted suicides of two inmates, a man and a woman, in unrelated incidents. Each had a harrowing back-story, suggesting that the individuals’ attempts may not be their last.

Five Inmates Graduate from Flagler Jail’s Immersive Addiction Recovery Program, for Total of 42

November 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Inmates in the addiction-recovery program live, breathe and eat together at the Flagler County jail, replicating the value of an in-patient recovery program and vastly improving its success rate. (© FlaglerLive)

Inmates in the addiction-recovery program live, breathe and eat together at the Flagler County jail, replicating the value of an in-patient recovery program and vastly improving its success rate, as most of those who are released–with follow-up care–do not return to the jail.

Sheriff’s Office Lands $1.3 Million Grant to Expand Drug-Abuse Treatment at the County Jail

October 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The jail "isn’t a place anyone wants to stay on a regular basis,” the sheriff's Court and Detention Services Chief Dan Engert says. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County jail is the only residential treatment facility in Flagler County for drug-addicted men, and a rare location where they may get medically-assisted treatment. The Department of Justice is noticing, awarding the Flagler Sheriff’s Office a three-year, $1.3 million grant to expand the Successful Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Treatment, or “Smart” program at the jail.

A U.S. Prison’s Scandinavian Make-Over Shows the Way to More Humane Penal System

October 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Prisoners and staff share responsibility for taking care of the fish tank at the ‘Little Scandinavia’ housing unit in a Pennsylvania prison. (Pennsylvania Government Commonwealth Media Services)

At a medium-security prison outside of Philadelphia, a correctional officer-guided team has worked since 2018 to incorporate Scandinavian penal principles into its own institution. Prisoners reported feeling safer and having more positive relationships with staff and other people living in the prisons. They also indicated greater satisfaction with their access to food and the reintegration support available to them.

Florida National Guard Could Be Used to Fill In at Short-Staffed State Prisons

September 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Maybe they could wait tables and fill in at VPKs next. (Florida National Guard)

As the state continues to struggle with a shortage of correctional officers, a legislative panel next week will consider a plan that would activate Florida National Guard members to help at prisons, according to a document published Friday.

Florida Prisons Propose Cutting Family Visitations, Drawing Sharp Objections

July 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Florida's actual death row. (Florida State Prison)

Florida’s state-run prisons would be allowed to cut visitation with inmates in half to mirror staffing shortages. Advocates for inmates and their families object, saying visitation is a boon to inmate behavior and helps maintain family ties critical for the success of inmates returning to free society.

FDLE Arrests 3 at Dade Correctional Institution Officers for Murder

April 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Overbooked. (Thomas Hawk)

Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested three correctional officers accused of murdering an inmate at Dade Correctional Institution (CI) on February 14, 2022. The officers, Christopher Rolon, 29, Kirk Walton, 34, and Ronald Connor, 24, are each charged with murder.

Flagler Sheriff and County Get Their Own Advocate to Help Control Inmate Health Costs

March 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The agreement with Prime Health Services, through the Florida Sheriffs Association, is similar to securing a health advocate who negotiates medical bills after services have been rendered, to lower the costs of overbilling.

Convict Slavery: The 13th Amendment’s Fatal Flaw

January 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Florida convicts leased to harvest timber circa 1910. (Florida Memory)

The 13th Amendment, considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, set “free” an estimated 4 million enslaved people and seemed to demonstrate American claims to equality and freedom. But the amendment did not apply to those convicted of a crime.

Florida Is Among World Leaders in Mass Incarceration

September 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Florida prisons are, of course, hiring. A notice on the Department of Corrections' Facebook page.

Florida and a dozen other states imprison people at the highest rates in the world, without demonstrating that incarceration reduces crime, says the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research and policy advocacy organization.

Flagler Records 99 Covid Infections Sunday, County Jail Outbreak Hits 37, AdventHealth Palm Coast Has 45 Hospitalized

July 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Empty beds in Florida hospitals are becoming a rare sight as Covid's delta variant continues to hospitalize patients in record numbers, including 45 today at AdventHospital Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

The numbers across the community continue to point toward more gravity than relief, with infections still on the upswing, with few people and fewer organizations–including governments–returning to safety protocols essential to slowing the spread, such as masking and social distancing.

Florida Prisons Want to Ban Most ‘Routine’ Mail, Replacing It with Communal Email. Families Are Outraged.

June 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Florida prison officials’ plan to replace prisoners’ “routine” mail with digitized versions viewed on tablet computers or communal kiosks has sparked an outcry among inmates’ families and advocates, who argue that preserving bonds with loved ones while prisoners are locked up dramatically increases later chances of success on the outside.

Federal Judge Dismisses Suit by 5 Inmates Claiming Constant Bright Lights at Flagler Jail are ‘Human Torture’

May 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Fluorescent lights are on 24 hours a day at the Flagler County jail as a security measure, a jail official says. (© FlaglerLive)

Inmates filed suit over bright lights being on 24 hours a day at the Flagler County jail. A federal judge dismissed the suit on a technicality–the jail is not an entity that could be sued–but the jail administration had previously sought to address the issue with eye masks and is exploring other possibilities.

Plan to Raze 4 Prisons and Eliminate 6,000 Beds Alarms Communities Attached to Jobs

April 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Some of them are beyond rust. (Florida state prisons)

A plan to shutter up to four state prisons is alarming officials in Florida’s rural regions where correctional institutions have played an outsized role in providing jobs and supporting businesses for decades.

Federal Investigation Finds Staff Brutality and Sexual Abuse of Inmates at Florida Prison. State Demurs.

February 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Lowell state prison. (Facebook)_

The federal investigation found “varied and disturbing reports” of sexual abuse, including rape, of female inmates by staff members at the state’s largest women’s correctional facility. State officials had documented and been aware of sexual abuse by sergeants, correctional officers and other staff at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala since at least 2006.

Flagler Sheriff Lands $530,000 Federal Grant to Improve Mental Health Among Jail Inmates

October 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The grant will allow effective training, timely screening for mental illness and substance abuse, evidence-based treatment and case management for individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

Today’s Flagler Jail Bookings, Crime and Incident Reports for Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell

October 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

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Palm Coast and Flagler County jail bookings, day and night shift commanders’ crime and incident reports investigated by Sheriff’s deputies and archive.

Why Most Inmates Don’t Wear Masks at the Flagler County Jail: Security Trumps Covid

August 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Flagler County jail was not built for social distancing. (© FlaglerLive)

Daniel Engert, the sheriff’s chief of the jail and courts division, acknowledged that most inmates don;t wear masks at the county jail, but attributed the rule to security–and noted that the strategy in place has kept the count of inmate covid cases at zero, though some staffers have been infected.

113 Prisoners Test Positive for Covid-19, 47 of them at Volusia’s Tomoka Correctional

April 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Along with the 113 inmates, 80 corrections workers had tested positive for Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Four inmates had also died, all at Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa County.

Florida Prisons Stop Accepting New Inmates from Counties

March 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

It's going to be a bit lonelier up there. (Florida prisons)

The decision to curtail the flow of inmates into the state prison system, which houses roughly 96,000 offenders, comes a week after Department of Corrections officials canceled visitation until April 5.

Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Juvenile Solitary Confinement

December 9, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a 21-page order Friday that cleared the way for the case to continue. Walker wrote that the plaintiffs have “alleged sufficient facts” to bring the lawsuit.

Solitary Confinement in Florida’s Prisons and Juvenile Detention Challenged in Court

November 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

In a bad light. (jmiller291)

In separate but parallel lawsuits, civil-rights and legal groups are challenging Florida’s use of solitary confinement in prisons and juvenile detention centers —- but are facing pushback from state agencies.

Flagler Deputy Resigns, Without Charges, After Accusation of ‘Excessive Force’ On Older, Mentally Ill Inmate

September 24, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Jared Tazewell at the time he was sworn a deputy, in 2016. (FCSO)

Jared Tazewell, 34, was a detention deputy at the Flagler County jail for three years. He allegedly punched 54-year-old Mark Duncanson after Duncanson threw his walker at him. The sheriff’s office released no documentation Tuesday.

2019 Flagler Jail Bookings, Sheriff’s, Bunnell and Flagler Beach Crime and Incident Reports (Archived)

June 1, 2019 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Archived 2019 Flagler County jail bookings, commanders’ crime and incident reports, Flagler Beach and Bunnell police shift reports and archive.

Inmate at Flagler Jail Manages to Facebook Live, Breaching Security and Angering Sheriff Over County’s IT Protocols

May 31, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Inmate William Medder was able to broadcast to the world using Facebook Live from a tablet in a class like the one above at the Flagler County jail. (FCSO)

A inmate Facebooked live during a GED class at the jail, the second such breach in two months after sheriff’s officials warned the county, which handles the sheriff’s IT, to address the issue. A county employee has been suspended.

Florida Considers Prison Guards as Immigration Enforcers; Counties May Be Next

May 14, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Immigration enforcement is beginning to look gaolish. (LenDog64)

The state request to launch the federal immigration enforcement program, known as 287(g), came as Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed local governments to implement the program at county jails.

Faith-Based Southern Correctional Medicine Will Be New Health Provider at Flagler Jail

May 13, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The sheriff said he was firing the current health provider after the unexplained death of inmate Anthony Fennick in February. (© FlaglerLive)

Southern Correctional Medicine replaces Armor Correctional Health after a breakdown in relations between the sheriff and the company following the death of inmate Anthony Fennick in February.

Federal Lawsuit Targets Florida Prisons Over ‘Deliberately Indifferent’ Use of Solitary Confinement

May 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Florida’s prison system is “widely overusing” the practice of solitary confinement to manage inmates, sometimes locking them up in cells that are no bigger than a parking spaces over often-minor infractions, according to a federal lawsuit.

Flagler Jail Inmates Among Work Crews That Cleaned Up Homeless Camp Near Public Library

March 21, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Flagler County jail inmates at work cleaning up the homeless camp near the public library in Palm Coast. (FCSO)

The Flagler jail’s “Inmate Work Crew” launched last summer and has been used at about a dozen county-owned facilities, its work valued at the equivalent of $75,000 that would otherwise have had to be paid with tax dollars.

House Piles Up Exceptions and Controversies to Automatic Restoration of Felons’ Voting Rights

March 18, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

House Criminal Justice Chairman James Grant, R-Tampa, lengthens the list of proposed exclusions. (NSF)

House proposals would broaden the definition of sex offenses that would keep a felon from regaining the right to vote and would add a slew of financial obligations before a felon could get the right back.

Rethinking Incarceration and Systemic Oppression: Stetson University Launches Critical Initiative

March 16, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Overbooked. (Thomas Hawk)

Stetson University Community Education Project (CEP) is launching Rethinking Incarceration, an initiative designed to promote dialogue on mass incarceration, prison reform, human rights, political engagement and systemic oppression.

Sheriff Fires Armor, Jail Health Provider at Center of Anthony Fennick’s Death, and Institutes Immediate Changes

February 22, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Anthony Fennick's friends and family members lighting up candles at his memorial on the beach last week. (© Shannon Trivino for FlaglerLive)

Sheriff Rick Staly is firing Armor Correctional Health and instituting a series of measures at the jail making family-inmate contact easier in critical times, and information more readily accessible.

Anthony Fennick’s Death and The Sheriff’s Green Roof Inn Smear

February 17, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

flagler jail green roof inn sign

Much is unknown in the death of inmate Anthony Fennick, but much is known, including the sheriff’s responsibility for hiring trouble-ridden Armor Health–and for showing inmates contempt from the outset with his “Green Roof Inn” sign.

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