That report’s findings about what ultimately caused Faggart’s controversial death will prove consequential, so the report’s completion is a significant step.
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Sergeant suspended after Duval jail death broke use of force policy before
The sergeant who was among nine guards suspended by Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters after a Duval County inmate was allegedly brutalized to death in April was reprimanded in 2021 after he pepper sprayed a restrained inmate at close range.
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Medical records in controversial jail death contradict JSO account
Doctors at UF Health who evaluated a broken, bruised and unresponsive Charles Faggart after he’d arrived from the Duval County jail on April 7 concluded he did not have fentanyl in his system or suffer a seizure, contradicting key details released by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office about the controversial in-custody death. Doctors also removed a barb from a stun gun in his back – JSO has not previously disclosed that Faggart was stunned – and noted multiple fractures on his face and ribs, bruises throughout his body, and serious damage to his kidneys and liver.
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JSO jailers said she had no visible injuries. Photos say otherwise
Allison Fierro’s face was unmarked when she was booked into the Duval County jail on a DUI. When she bonded out three days later, her eyes were a frightful black-and-blue mask, the result of a violent “straight-arm-bar” takedown by two officers who decided the 108-pound, 55-year-old woman pleading for her anxiety meds was being “uncooperative.”
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Officer suspended in recent Duval jail death was previously reprimanded
One of the nine Duval County jail officers suspended earlier this month in connection with the death of 31-year-old Charles Faggart was reprimanded last year in an unrelated internal affairs investigation centered around the death of a different inmate, according to documents obtained by The Tributary.
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Duval jail death a grim reminder of lingering problems
Charles Faggart’s death, which prompted Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters to suspend eight corrections officers and one sergeant while a criminal investigation is underway, overlaps with years of scrutiny over the jail’s shoddy conditions, as well as high-stakes discussions among city officials about spending up to $1 billion for a new jail in the coming years.
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Man injured in ‘incident’ involving 9 Jacksonville jailers dies
The 31-year-old father who was hospitalized after an “incident” in the Duval County jail this week, which Sheriff T.K. Waters has refused to detail, has died, according to his family’s attorney.
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Man in critical condition after ‘incident’ in Duval jail; FBI to help investigate
A judge on Tuesday reduced the bond of a Jacksonville man who was “seriously injured” after an “incident” at the Duval County jail so the man’s family could visit him while he was hospitalized, according to court documents obtained by The Tributary.
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After scrutiny, JSO adds medical staff to Duval jail to bolster inmate care
The National Commission on Correctional Health Care lifted the probationary status of the John E. Goode Pretrial Detention Facility in June, according to documents The Tributary received in a records request, which shed light on efforts JSO has not publicized to improve conditions in the aging jail.
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Family of heart patient who died after Duval jail stay settles lawsuit
The family of a 54-year-old heart-transplant patient who died after a short stay in the Duval County jail settled a federal lawsuit over his death for $300,000.