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More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Wetumpka Police Department (Alabama) Bass drove at 97 miles per hour (156 km/h) without lights or siren, striking a car driven by Elaine Merritt. Bass was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to a year in jail. [69] 9 August 2016: Lee Coel 16 October 2019 (pleaded guilty) Punta Gorda Police Department (Florida)
The jail in Brazos County, Texas, which has around 650 inmates, has had only one completed suicide in the past 10 years, according to Kit Wright, a sergeant and nurse at the county sheriff's office. The county makes an effort to keep people with mental health issues out of jail: Last year, crisis intervention officers diverted 214 people to ...
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) is a joint city-county law enforcement agency, which has primary responsibility for law enforcement, investigation, and corrections within the consolidated City of Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida, United States. Duval County includes the incorporated cities of Jacksonville, Atlantic Beach, Baldwin ...
The MDCR is the seventh-largest county jail system in the United States as of 2012, [1] with approximately 2,906 employees. [2] The department is still often referred by its former name, DCJ for Dade County Jail. Miami-Dade Corrections Officers are easily identified by their white shirts with green trousers with gray stripe.
A spokesman for Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation said in an emailed statement that the matter is under “active investigation” and that corrections staff were told by an inmate on Dec ...
The parents of a 9-year-old boy say excessive force was used when a police officer handcuffed their son at a Florida elementary school in February. Now they’re suing over the incident captured ...
The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office was formed in 1921, when Florida Governor Cary A. Hardee appointed school teacher James H. Lipscomb as sheriff for the county; 16 men have served as Sheriff of Charlotte County to date. [8] In its early days, much of its focus was on enforcing laws restricting the sale and use of alcohol under prohibition. [9]