“We need a bigger jail”

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Sheriff Mac McNeill had both good and bad tidings to report to the Jefferson County Commission recently. The good news, McNeill said, was that the jail had undergone the annual inspection for the Florida Model Jail Standards, which sets the minimum qualifications that jails across the state must meet to ensure that the constitutional rights of incarcerated persons are being upheld. Before 1996, the Florida Department of Corrections set the standards and o