Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters shook up his senior command staff over the last month, asking for the resignations or demotions of three jail officials after The Tributary’s reporting uncovered unsafe medical conditions in the Duval jail, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Author Archives: Nichole Manna
Nichole Manna reports on the criminal justice system in Jacksonville. She has previously covered criminal justice at newspapers in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina and Tennessee, but is originally from Ocala. Nichole likes to cook, read novels and spend time with her dogs, Opie and Oliver. You can reach her at nichole.manna@jaxtrib.org.
Posted inNews
Duval jail kept medical provider even after million-dollar settlements, deaths, other sheriffs’ complaints
Despite hundreds of lawsuits against Armor Correctional Health Services, millions of dollars worth of settlements and dead inmates across the country, Jacksonville leaders signed contracts twice with the company, allowing it to run the Duval County jail’s health care for at least a decade.
Posted inNews
Duval jail’s medical provider says anti-rejection meds were ordered for inmate who later died
The medical provider for the Duval County Jail said a heart transplant recipient’s anti-rejection medications were ordered, but weren’t delivered to the jail until after his release.
Posted inNews
Duval jail’s medical provider says it gave ‘quality medical care’ to man who later died
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.
Posted inNews
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.