The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested its own correctional officer and 16 other people and charged them with bringing drugs into the Duval County jail.
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The Tributary’s Nichole Manna receives national recognition for jail health reporting
Manna was awarded an honorable mention for her investigative reporting by the National Institute for Healthcare Management.
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Jacksonville man beaten by JSO officers avoids jail time with plea deal
A 24-year-old who Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers beat after he fled during a traffic stop avoided jail time by pleading guilty to a non-violent misdemeanor Monday morning.
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New federal charges against JSO officer reveal inappropriate text messages, alleged sexual coercion
A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office gang-unit officer who has found himself at the center of repeated controversy, including two fatal shootings, was arrested Friday by federal agents for allegedly coercing an underage teenager into sending nude photographs and performing sexual acts.
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Jacksonville sheriff shuns multi-faith group for ‘theatrics’ that didn’t happen, video shows
More than 700 people gathered Monday night to call for an end to Jacksonville’s decades-long epidemic of shooting deaths, but the man with the power to act on their ideas — Sheriff T.K. Waters — was noticeably absent.
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Jacksonville correctional officer accused of pepper spraying, hitting inmate, JSO says
A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office correctional officer has been arrested and accused of battery after he pepper sprayed and beat a Duval County inmate who was not resisting him, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
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Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office disciplines officers for publicly stripping man
Two JSO officers violated the agency’s strip search policy and a third violated the body camera policy when they stripped a man on a public road.
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Former Jacksonville Public Defender Matt Shirk disbarred
Former Jacksonville Public Defender Matt Shirk was disbarred.
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In 2 months, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has already reported 4 inmate deaths
A 24-year-old who was incarcerated at the Duval County jail died on Tuesday evening at a local hospital after a medical episode, according to a news release from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
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For decades, Jacksonville ignored its decaying jail. Can the city learn from past mistakes?
Today’s jail was opened in 1991, and in the 30 years since, the city and the Sheriff’s Office fought over who should be responsible for the jail’s upkeep, resulting in today’s crisis, a former corrections director told The Tributary.