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Lockdown Lifted At All Florida Prisons
August 21, 2017
The Florida Department of Corrections announced Monday morning that normal operations have resumed at all prisons, including Century Correctional and Santa Rosa Correctional institutions. The announcement follows a statewide partial lockdown that started last week and cancellation of weekend visitations at all major institutions, work camps and annex facilities.
“We made a planned, strategic decision to take proactive action to uphold our mission to protect public safety and keep our staff and inmates safe. I am confident the measures taken were not only necessary but effective. I am incredibly proud of our team across the Department for joining together to enhance the safety of our facilities and prevent any major disturbances from taking place,” said FDC Secretary Julie Jones.
The lockdown was “in response to credible intelligence indicating that small groups of inmates at several institutions may attempt to disrupt FDC operations and impact safety and security,” according to a department release.
NorthEscambia.com file photo.
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3 Responses to “Lockdown Lifted At All Florida Prisons”
Too bad they can’t ship the inmates to Afghanistan with empty Reynolds wrap containers as weapons of choice. Let them learn to live off the land there. Sleep under the stars..
Anytime someone works beyond their normal working hours, they deserve to be paid overtime. Did you not get to work overtime because you were retiring? Gee! that’s a shame. There are so many folks who wants a job, but them he or she doesn’t want to do the job, just get paid. I see it all the time. I pray for all the folks who work in the prisons, our police & highway patrolmen, and our military. I want to think it takes special people to do those jobs! I do know that there are some folks who shouldn’t be doing those types of jobs!!
Let’s be sure to flex them off and not pay them overtime..