Duval County jail’s medical provider, Armor Correctional Services, said in a statement on Friday that staff gave “quality medical care” to a heart transplant recipient who died after not receiving his anti-rejection medications while jailed.
Author Archives: Nichole Manna
Nichole Manna is The Florida Trib's Senior Investigative Reporter. She has been with the organization since 2023 and has covered the criminal justice system for more than a decade.
Nichole has extensively covered conditions at the Duval County jail and in 2024 received first place from the Green Eyeshade Awards in online investigations for her reporting of medical neglect at the facility. That series of stories was recognized with awards at the local, regional and national level. She took home the first place prize for a feature story in a small newsroom from the Online Journalism Awards in 2025 for her series, ‘Cold-Blooded’, which dissected a 1993 death penalty case and questioned whether the defendant received a fair trial.
Prior to joining The Trib, Nichole was an investigative reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas where she was a Livingston Award finalist for a series of stories about a neighborhood with the lowest life expectancy in the state. Her work helped get residents access to free pop-up clinics and they continue to receive help with food disparities.
She is currently working with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network to produce an investigative project.
You can reach her at nichole@floridatrib.org.
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Florida opens investigation into Duval County jail’s medical provider
The Florida Department of Management Services opened an investigation into Armor Correctional Services after the company failed to report that they were convicted in the death of a Milwaukee inmate in October 2022.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Jail didn’t give transplant medicine despite knowing a Jacksonville man needed it, records confirm
Andrew Bonderud, the attorney for Dexter Barry’s family, believes Barry not getting his life-sustaining medication “was entirely driven by profit and a profit motive.”
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘My heart will be rejected’: Jacksonville man dies after missing doses in jail
After a dispute with his neighbor over wireless internet access, police arrested Dexter Barry and denied him the heart transplant medicine he said he needed.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Officials refuse to answer questions in JSO public strip-search case
Despite public outcry over the case of a Black man who was stripped by Jacksonville sheriff’s officers on a public road, the agencies responsible for his prosecution have yet to answer a slew of questions raised by The Tributary’s reporting last week.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office strip-search called ‘outrageous, unwarranted, embarrassing’
Last September, Jacksonville sheriff’s officers stripped a 45-year-old man on a public road in view of his aunt and others, likely in violation of department policy.