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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Department of
Corrections is made up of 650 certified corrections officers and
civilian personnel and encompasses three correctional facilities for
the secure, humane, corrective and productive detention of
individuals incarcerated in Duval County. The largest of these
facilities is the John E. Goode Pretrial Detention Facility (PDF)
located in downtown Jacksonville, adjacent to the Police Memorial
Building and conveniently located near the Duval County Court House.
A state-of-the-art facility when opened in April 1991, the PDF is a
twelve-story building with an inmate capacity of 2,189. All
individuals arrested in Duval County pass through the portals of the
PDF where they are booked on their criminal charges. Prior to a
first appearance hearing many individuals will be released through
various legal avenues. Individuals not eligible for release will be
housed at PDF until disposition of the criminal charges.
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Director
J. H. Rutherford
Department
of Corrections
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Supervised
prisoner crews operating under strict guidelines work in many
troublesome areas where citizens dump trash, where deterioration of
a neighborhood has occurred, and other “critical-need” areas
where citizens have asked for help. MCC goes beyond the “warehousing”
of prisoners concept to try and give prisoners a skill they can use
upon their release back into the community, while at the same time,
creating a prison environment of strict discipline to assist them in
rebuilding a positive character.
Our other
facility is the Community Corrections Division which is a work
release center. Eleven years ago, the Department of Corrections
working in adjunct with the court system and community based
substance abuse treatment programs set-up an in-house Substance
Abuse Treatment Program (S.A.T.) for male and female inmates.
Corrections personnel assigned to CCD also monitor a Week-end
Commitment program and a Home Detention Program for another several
hundred inmates.
These three facilities together house a total of 3,148
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