VOLUSIA EXPOSED

A recent exposed the lunacy of the Volusia County jail's INOB (Eye Nob) program.

The program is a recent implemented suicide preventation plan that uses county sentenced jail inmates to directly and closely watch other jail inmates who are on suicide watch.

We (VolusiaExposed.Com) support the conclusions of the that Volusia County government should rethink the usage of inmate observers (INOBS) within their jail suicide prevention program.

In addition - VolusiaExposed.Com believes that the Florida legislature needs to "rethink" it's 1996 decision to repeal Florida Administrative Code 33-8 (FAC 33-8). Prior to October 1996 - FAC 33-8 regulated the operations of ALL county jails within Florida. These regulations (FAC 33-8) would have never allowed the use of INOBs. One of the standing priniciples of FAC 33-8 was that inmates were not allowed to supervise other inmates.

Upon repeal of FAC 33-8 - the Florida legislature assigned the Florida Sheriff's Association to develop new jail oversight standards. These new standards are called Florida Model Jail Standards (FMJS).

We invite you to read our and articles in which we explain why - in our OPINION - FMJS standards are failing to insure the health and safety of both inmates and employees within Florida's county jails.

The INOB question is just the most recent example of why Florida should return to FAC 33-8 jail oversight. As detailed in - we provide video evidence from a 2014 meeting of the FMJS Commission that supports that in at least one county jail there are fire code violations dating back to 1996 - AND that FMJS medical inspectors were NOT even medically qualified. We have seen many other changes to FMJS since 2014 - and none of them good.

Stand by to stand by..... there is certainly more to come of this....