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Three (3) Suicides Last Year Prompt Changes For Volusia Jail Does Florida Need To Return To State Oversight Of County Jails? |
February 6, 2017 |
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Recently - the Daytona Beach News-Journal published an article outlining changes within the Volusia County jail - in the jail's effort to reduce in-custody suicides. These changes included an apparent independent outside review of current jail suicide prevention policies - and more public participation in identifying at risk jail inmates. VolusiaExposed.Com invites our readers to review the entire DBNJ article - in order to have a full appreciation of how the jail defines this problem - and what they believe will assist them in better addressing the sitution. |
Click Below Link To Read Entire DBNJ Article 3 suicides last year prompt changes for Volusia jail  ....... |
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Once you have read the DBNJ article - we invite you to review our opinion on the matter. The problem of in-custody jail suicide is not unique to Volusia County. As memorialized within the below linked web articles - other Florida county jails are also experiencing in-custody suicides. March 2015 - CBS - Miami - Hernando County, Florida August 2014 - Tampa Bay Times - Pinellas County, Florida October 2013 - NBC - Miami - Monroe County, Florida VOLUSIAEXPOSED.COM CALLS FOR THE RETURN OF STATE OVERSIGHT OF FLORIDA COUNTY JAILS |
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Prior to October 1996 - all Florida county jails were being oversighted by the Florida State Department of Corrections - under their authority listed in Florida Administrative Code 33-8. However, in 1996 - the Florida legislature decided to repeal FAC 33-8 - and to give jail oversight authority to the Florida Sheriff Association (FSA).
The FSA developed oversight policies titled "Florida Model Jail Standards (FMJS)" - to replace the repealed FAC 33-8 standards. |
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There are significant differences between FMJS and FAC33-8 standards. The major difference is that FAC33-8 standards called for mandatory compliance within all Florida county jails. Currently, FMJS compliance is totally voluntary - with some Florida jails - even refusing to participate in the FMJS oversight process.
Our (VolusiaExposed.Com) concerns over the FMJS oversight process can be better understood by reading our 2013 article on the topic. In short - VolusiaExposed.Com forwards the opinion that in order to better handle the in-custody suicide problem within Florida's county jails - the return of State oversight of the jails is a MUST have. We suspect that most of our readers would agree with this opinion - once they have read our earlier linked articles. Standby to standby --- more to come.... |
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