Your obedient servant and his traveling companion have returned from our Panama Canal cruise, and are pleased to report the canal is still there. We investigated on-board duplicate opportunities, but were met by an austere gentleman of English persuasion who said, rather off-puttingly, "Wal, it is going to cawst you some mon-eh." It was a very private group. We decided to play social bridge instead. ...more

November 11, 2009

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office corporal was fired and a second deputy resigned over the treatment in January of a quadriplegic inmate, according to internal affairs reports released Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

Nine Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office employees were negligent in their treatment of quadriplegic former Orient Road Jail inmate Brian Sterner, according to an internal affairs report released today. ...more

August 12, 2008

What Hillsborough County Jail Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones did last January was an outrage. While searching a partially paralyzed man during booking, she dumped Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair, as casually as if he was a bag of dirty laundry. The Sheriff's Office quickly and rightly charged her with abusing the disabled, a third-degree felony that could bring up to a five-year sentence. ...more

July 8, 2008

Video released last week of a detention deputy dumping a quadriplegic man from his wheelchair at Orient Road Jail made national news, but the quadriplegic man says that wasn't the only time deputies failed to properly handle his disabilities. ...more

February 23, 2008

The attorney for a woman who claims her arm was broken while in Orient Road Jail last year says maintaining order in detention facilities is critical but with the state's power to use force comes a responsibility to show restraint. ...more

February 21, 2008

TAMPA - The attorney for a woman who claims her arm was broken while in Orient Road Jail last year has provided The Tampa Tribune the notice of intent to sue sent to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 21, 2008

News of two more complaints about incidents of abuse at Orient Road Jail emerged Wednesday. ...more

February 21, 2008

TAMPA - An internal affairs investigation is looking into a Falkenburg Road Jail inmate's complaint that Charlette Marshall-Jones, the detention deputy who dumped a quadriplegic man from his wheelchair in January, also abused her last month. ...more

February 20, 2008

A quadriplegic man dumped from a wheelchair while being booked at Orient Road Jail does not expect to sue the sheriff's office, his attorney said. ...more

February 20, 2008