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Instead, they ll drive through several counties, enter a fenced-off property, have their purses searched and raise their hands for a pat-down at one of the state s 57 correctional facilities.
Their sons and daughters are among the more than 87,000 inmates imprisoned within the walls of the Florida Department of Corrections. As a mother, you go there for love, but it s always a sad time for me, said Lisa Dames of Hobe Sound, whose three sons have all been incarcerated at some point in their lives. Going to these prisons is a horrible experience.
Florida corrections officer killed in crash in Indian Rocks Beach
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INDIAN ROCKS, Fla. â A Florida corrections officer was killed in a crash in Indian Rocks early Monday morning, officials said.
The Pinellas County Sheriff s Office said on Monday around 3:30 a.m., deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash on the Indian Rocks Bridge.
Investigators said deputies arrived on the scene and found an overturned Ford F-250 with 44-year-old Miguel Gonzalez near the vehicle. Gonzalez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Corrections officer killed in Indian Rocks Bridge crash
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INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. - A corrections officer was killed in single-vehicle crash that left the Indian Rocks Bridge closed for most of the day while investigators tried to figure out what happened.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, it was around 3:30 a.m. when the driver of a Ford F-150 apparently lost control while heading westbound on the bridge and struck a concrete barrier.
That driver, later identified as Miguel A. Gonzalez, was ejected from the truck as it continued careening into a palm tree and two signs before eventually coming to rest on its side in front of 300 5th Avenue North.
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