Marion County Jail staff was falsifying records regarding inmate escapes So what's the big deal? - Volusia County jail staff falsified official records regarding at least one inmate's death with no ramifications - What's the difference?
Updated April 25, 2011
"Beware the fury of a patient man"- Poet, John Dryden
Well, another inmate has escaped from the Marion county jail. What a big surprise (sarcasm intended) - and to add insult to injury, it's the same teenager that escaped less than a year ago.
Many of our readers still remember the high profile escapes last year from the Osceola County jail. Those escapes led to the jail director's resignation and the need to take severe disciplinary action on several correctional officers.
We here at VolusiaExposed.Com strongly hold the position that jail escapes and in-custody inmate deaths are not being properly investigated by jail authorities. Prior to 1997, these incidents (jail escapes and deaths) were independently investigated by the Office of the Florida Prison Inspector under the authority of Florida Administrative Code 33-8. However, in 1997, the Florida Legisalture repealed F.A.C. 33-8 and put in it's place a system of jail self inspections / investigations under the authority of the Florida Sheriff Association. Under the FAC 33-8 review process it was mandated that all county jails participate, however, under the Florida Sheriff Association process participation is voluntary and many counties opt not to participate.
We believe that the below article will give our readership some insight on how, since 1997 Florida County Jails have been unanswerable to any mandated regulatory body.
Further we invite our readership to review our webpage on this situation (FAC 33-8 vs FMJS).
We (VolusiaExposed.Com) believe that without the return of the State Prison Inspector,s review of jail escapes and deaths, the citizens of Florida can expect an ever rising tide of these type incidents within Florida jails.
We invite you to review some of the questionable in-custody deaths at the Volusia County Jail. In the particular, we invite you to review how staff falsified records in the Tracy Veira death.