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Prisons and Jails

From Drug Court To Vigil For Anthony Fennick, an Unexplained Death Continues To Rattle

February 14, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Anthony Fennick's brother Dan, right, spoke during a vigil in remembrance of Anthony, who died Saturday at age 23. His mother Erika Williams, with her husband Dan, center, pledged to start an advocacy organization called 'Inmates Are Human Too.' (© FlaglerLive)

A dusk vigil for Anthony Fennick, 23, who died Saturday after his health degraded at the Flagler jail, mixed celebration of his life with anger at his death, while Circuit Judge Terence Perkins this morning tried to address it in Drug Court.

Flagler Jail’s Private Provider Says Its Nurses Did Nothing Wrong in Fennick’s Death–and Asks for Reimbursements

February 11, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Inmates at the Flagler County jail. (© FlaglerLive)

Armor Correctional Health relieved two nurses of duty at the Flagler jail at the sheriff’s request, placing them on administrative leave and asking the sheriff to pay their salaries and their replacements’ salaries.

Anthony Fennick Will Die Saturday Morning, Days After Degrading at Flagler Jail. Family Awaits Answers.

February 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Anthony Fennick today in ICU. He will be pulled off the respirator on Saturday. (© FlaglerLive)

The family of Anthony Fennick, 23, will gather around him Saturday morning, when his breathing machine will be disconnected. He was brain dead after suffering days of high fevers at the Flagler jail, where his care was neglected, his family says.

Inmate At Flagler Jail Complains Of High Fevers For Days and Is Pacified. He’s Now Brain Dead.

February 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 98 Comments

Anthony Fennick of Palm Coast is 23.

Anthony Fennick, 23, was at the jail on a minor drug charge, developed severe fevers, saw nurses but was not allowed to see a doctor, and on Monday went into cardiac arrest and lost all brain activity.

Transgender Inmate Spurs Appeal as Florida Prisons Seek to Deny Her Gender Identity

January 3, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Reiyn Keohane in her Florida prisons mug shot, left, and in her Lee County mug shot from 2013, when she was arrested for attempted second degree murder. The Florida prison system still lists her as male.

Inmate Reiyn Keohane contends that her rights have been violated at least in part because she has not been allowed to wear women’s undergarments and groom as a woman.

Court Sides With Two Central Florida Counties on Juvenile Justice Costs Owed By State

November 27, 2018 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Part of a display outside the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Ala. (© FlaglerLive)

The case — and earlier litigation involving counties and the department — is rooted in a law that involves counties and the state sharing juvenile-detention costs.

Mark Klos of Flagler Beach Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in His Jail Cell Days After Arrest Over Death Threats

September 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Mark Klos, 72, of Flagler Beach, had been arrested Thursday (Sept. 27) after allegedly writing brutal and graphic death threats against a building contractor.

2018 Flagler Jail Bookings, Sheriff’s, Bunnell and Flagler Beach Crime and Incident Reports (Archived)

September 17, 2018 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sheriff Rick Staly observing inmates at the Flagler County jail, renamed Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility in May 2017. (© FlaglerLive)

Archived 2018 Flagler County jail bookings, commanders’ crime and incident reports, Flagler Beach and Bunnell police shift reports and archive.

Flagler Jail Sends ‘Inmate Work Crew’ Around Town, and Gets Paid GED Instructor

August 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Pearl Brazelton in a video still teaching her new students at the Flagler County jail. (FCSO)

A black-and-white-striped Flagler County jail work crew will start duties around the community, and the jail is getting a GED instructor for nearly 30 hours a week.

Man, 79, Turns Himself In at Flagler Jail on Scam Warrant. It’s 6 Hours Before Deputies Figure It Out and Release Him.

August 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

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Alphonso Perry was made to wait for 2 hours in a lobby and 4 hours in a holding cell before detention deputies got to his file and figured out he did not belong at the county jail.

Florida Prisons Proposal To Cut Visitation Hours In Half Draws Outrage and Pleas

May 31, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Expect fewer visiting hours. Florida prisons director Julie Jones, seen here speaking with inmates at Wakula prison, is proposing fewer visitation hours as a cost-cutting measure.

Visits help cut recidivism and keep families close, as recognized even by state law, but Florida prison officials are looking to cut costs.

Flagler Jail Deputy Who’d Reported to Work Drunk Is Fired Over Obscene Gesture at Bar

May 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Mark Sousa, left, and Laura Gadson. (FCSO and © FlaglerLive)

Mark Sousa was fired and detention deputy Laura Gadson disciplined for posting an image of Sousa on Instagram flipping the bird at a bar the night his suspension had been revealed.

Brushing Aside 1st Amendment Claim, Appeals Court Uphold Florida Ban on a Prison Magazine

May 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Florida alone among 50 states bans Prison Legal News. Paul Wright, the publisher of the magazine, intends to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

No Move to Plug Budget Despite Warnings About Cuts to Prisons’ Substance-Abuse Programs

May 11, 2018 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Senate appropriations chairman said lawmakers aren’t planning to plug a $28 million budget gap at the Florida Department of Corrections until next year.

Florida Prisons’ 40% Cut in Substance-Abuse and Mental-Health Treatment Draw Criticism

May 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

As long as it's not drug rehab. (Florida DOC)

Some $7.6 million in substance-abuse services in prisons will be eliminated, Another $1.6 million will be cut in transitional housing services.

Florida Prisons Cut Drug-Rehab and Re-Entry Programs That Help Felons From Re-Offending

May 2, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Paving the way for the recidivism bus route. (Florida prisons)

Florida’s prisons are slashing substance-abuse services, transitional housing and re-entry programs, the very programs that keep inmates from returning to prison.

Sheriff’s Jail Deputy Suspended After Reporting to Work Drunk; Supervisory Issues a Concern

March 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly, center, in the control room at the county jail last summer. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Sheriff’s detention deputy Mark Sousa’s alcohol test recorded him at 0.096 and 0.093 four hours into his shift–the four hours it took supervisors to react to an employee’s repeated request to intervene.

For All of Sheriff Staly’s “Green Roof Inn” Tough Talk, the Green Also Stands For Hope and Renewal

February 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Inmates during a Stride Program orientation last week at the Flagler County jail, with program director Becky Quintieri. The program has seen 390 inmates in a little over six months. Non-violent offenders are eligible. (FCSO)

Flagler Sheriff Rick Staly today unveiled the Stride Program at the county jail, an ongoing rehabilitation and preparatory program to help inmates reintegrate society and stay out of jail.

Flagler Sheriff and County Officials Worry That Prison Reforms Could Shift Inmates,
and Costs, to County

February 19, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly, right, described the likely financial impact of a shift in inmates from the state back to the counties, during a meeting of the Public Safety Coordinating Council last week. Steve Cole, who oversees the local jail, is to his right, with County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens in the foreground. (© FlaglerLive)

A spate of criminal-justice reform bills in the Florida Senate has Flagler’s sheriff and a county commissioner worried about what that could mean for the local jail population and budgets.

Man at Flagler Jail Tries to Hang Himself, Fellow-Inmates and Deputies Rush To Save Him

February 13, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A video still from a surveillance camera that captured the attempted suicide, and inmates' and deputies' save, to the right of the image at the top of the stairwell. At that moment, the inmate is being brought back over the railing.

An inmate at the Flagler jail tied a bed sheet around a railing, then around his neck, and attempted suicide before inmates and deputies rushed to his rescue Tuesday.

Flagler’s Opioid Crisis Seen From Those Fighting It: A Severe Lack of Treatment Beds, Drug Court at Capacity, Jail as a Waiting Room

January 10, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Members of Flagler County's Public Safety Coordinating Council opened their discussion this morning with a news clip on the opioid crisis in Florida. (© FlaglerLive)

The most comprehensive picture of the opioid crisis in Flagler County came to light today in a gathering of Flagler County judges, top cops, medical, social and government services. Here are the details.

Notes From Underground

December 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Children of Jalalabad, the province where Nangarhar Women's Prison is located. (Department of Defense)

In Afghanistan, there may be up to 1,000 children in prison with a parent–not because they committed a crime, but because Afghan law permits their imprisonment with a criminal parent until the children turn 18.

When Flagler’s Judicial System Makes a 10-Year Error In a 40-Year Prison Sentence

October 24, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

William Copeland would be released at the earliest in January 2049, when he will be 58.

William Copeland is serving 40 years for shooting his daughter’s grandfather in Palm Coast in 2011. The court made a 10-year error in one of his sentences.

2017 Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime and Incident Reports (Archived)

April 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Archived 2017 Flagler County jail bookings, day and night shift commanders’ crime and incident reports investigated by Sheriff’s deputies and archive.

Fershtay? Appeals Court Rules Florida May Not Halt Offering Kosher and Halal Meals to Prisoners

July 15, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Florida prison officials argued they had a right to stop offering kosher meals if they got too expensive. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said no in a unanimous decision.

At Flagler’s New Jail, Science of Self-Contained Cell Blocks To Make Captivity Safer for Inmates and Guards

July 7, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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It’s in the internal designs, the innumerable details and attention to logic, efficiency and security for inmates, guards and visitors that the jail–which opened today– impresses, and that its $17.3 million cost shows its value.

Flagler County Jail Triple Its Old Size Set To Open July 7 in Camera-Ready “Ceremony”

June 30, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The opening, which a county release dubs a “ceremony,” will also feature the trappings of a campaign event: It is scheduled less than eight weeks from the primary, giving incumbents a chance freely to bask in the shadow of a major, completed construction project.

Media Groups Shut Out of Federal Lawsuit Over Prison Newspaper Ban

May 18, 2016 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

prison legal news

A federal appeals court has turned down a request by media groups to file a friend-of-the-court brief in a dispute about whether the Florida Department of Corrections can ban a publication from the state’s prisons.

In Florida, Court Rules, a 55-Year Prison Sentence For a Juvenile Is Not a Life Term

April 25, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Anthony Julian Collins was two months shy of 17 when he was committed an attempted second-degree murder, carjacking with a firearm and attempted armed robbery.

Poll-Tax Redux: Millions Free From Jail Are Barred From Voting By Criminal Debt

April 19, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

prison debt

Debt from fines starts at sentencing and can grow at interest rates of 12 percent or more while inmates serve their sentences. It continues to grow after they’re released and face the numerous barriers to finding work and housing.

Palm Coast’s Karl Westgate, 19, Dies in Prison 7 Weeks After Sentence for Child Rape

March 24, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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Karl Westgate, sentenced last summer to 25 years for raping an 11-year-old girl, died in prison 48 days after his incarceration, and five weeks after writing a Flagler County judge to say that his plea had been coerced, and that he wanted his case re-opened.

Florida Prisons, Already Censoring a News Publication, Now Seek to Censor Legal Brief

December 30, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Florida Department of Corrections is seeking to block state and national media organizations from filing a brief in a legal battle about whether a publication should be barred from Florida’s prisons.

William Dillow, Serving 45 Years for Raping 2 Pre-Teen Flagler Beach Girls, Is Murdered

November 6, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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William Dillow, 29, was sentenced in April to 45 years and was serving at the Jefferson Correctional Institution near Tallahassee when he was killed by a fellow-inmate. He’d been arrested in February 2014.

Alone Among 50 States, Florida’s Ban on Prison Newspaper Is Upheld

September 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

prison legal news

Florida Corrections officials have censored the publications for six years, objecting to certain ads and calling them a security risk. No other state prison system agrees.

Jailhouse Porn
Fort Apache: Flagler

August 8, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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There’s nothing to be proud of in the pornography of incarceration: Flagler had no reason to triple the size of its jail other than to amplify an indefensible architecture of disproportionate punishment.

Rethinking Restrictions on Food Stamps and Welfare Benefits for Drug Felons

August 3, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The bans on welfare and food stamps assistance apply only to drug felons, in accordance with a 1996 federal law, unless states choose to waive them.

Guard Brutality in Florida Prisons: 2 More Corrections Officers Arrested

May 5, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Correctional Officer Sgt. Christopher Michael Jernigan, 37, and Correctional Officer Donald Dwight Sims, Jr., 21, were arrested for brutalizing an inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution, the latest in a series of guard arrests in the troubled Florida Department of Corrections.

Florida Prisons Must Provide Halal or Kosher Meals to Muslim and Jewish Inmates, Court Rules

May 2, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The federal lawsuit challenged corrections officials’ claim that they were not required to provide kosher meals, as well as the rules the agency used to determine who was eligible to receive the meals.

Crime Down 20% in Two Years, Jail Population Isn’t: Sheriff Strains to Explain Paradox

April 23, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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Sheriff Jim Manfre touted Flagler County as one of the safest places in Florida and said the fact should be marketed to prospective businesses, but was less clear about the relationship between falling crime and a still-high jail population, or the county’s need for nearly tripling its jail beds.

Florida Prison Guards and KKK Members Arrested in Plot to Murder Black Ex-Inmate

April 2, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Arrest documents in the case expose chilling details of the Klan’s organization in North Florida and offer a reminder of the region’s ugly history of racism.

Shackling Juveniles: Despite 2009 Court Decision, Practice Continues Away From Courtroom

March 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Florida’s Supreme Court found shackling juveniles “repugnant, degrading, humiliating, and contrary to the stated primary purposes of the juvenile justice system” in a 2009 decision barring the practice in courtrooms, but shackling carries on elsewhere.

Counties Withhold Payments to State as Dispute Over Juvenile Costs Flares Again

February 13, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

After the failure of a legislative compromise last year, some counties are withholding their share of the costs from the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Florida Prison Ban on Beards Violates Muslim Inmates’ Religious Rights, Supreme Court Rules

January 20, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Florida and six other states could not ban inmates from growing beards for religious reasons. The case originated in Arkansas.

Said to Have Been Framed For Tampa Murder, Deaf Convict Felix Garcia Is Denied Release

November 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Felix Garcia’s supporters had hoped he would be released with time served, arguing that he’d been unable to understand the evidence against him during the murder trial and wasn’t given an interpreter.

Cruel and Unusual: 2 Inmates Who Murdered as Juveniles Challenge Their Life Sentences

November 8, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Two inmates serving life in prison for murders committed as juveniles are challenging their sentences based on a 2012 US Supreme Court ruling that bans mandatory life sentences for juveniles.

Escaped Convict Ronald McCoy Caught by West Palm Beach Police

November 3, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Ronald McCoy, an inmate with a very violent past who was serving two life terms on armed robbery convictions at a prison in Miami-Dade County, remains at large after his escape on Oct. 31.

Sheriff’s Office, In Echo of 2001 Violation, Keeps Secret the Hospitalization of Murder Suspect at FHF

October 31, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

For two days, a murder suspect was under arrest in Flagler County but not at the jail. The Sheriff’s Office would not disclose his whereabouts–a dungeon-like disappearance that no law allows or protects.

Flagler Detention Deputy of the Year Twice Reprimanded for Sexual Improprieties With Inmates in Last 2 Years

October 29, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Deputy Randy Stephen Vickers was disciplined in May for having a relationship with a repeat offender and inmate and two years ago for asking an inmate, jokingly, if she’d like to be sexually assaulted.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Terrorist

October 11, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Lyndon Johnson in 1925. (LBJ Library)

In 1926, Lyndon Johnson and his friends bombed the town square in Johnson City, Texas, taking out all the windows of a bank. He was never punished, let alone arrested. Times have changed.

Inmate Dies in a Florida Prison Less Than a Day After Family Questioned Safety; Federal Probe Sought

October 7, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Latandra Ellington, 36, died Wednesday at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, less than 24 hours after her family called prison officials to express concerns about her safety.

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