Ryan Masters has set up a website about his experience with JSO and FDLE. He claims he was extradited from Las Vegas to Jacksonville and held in the Duval County Jail for a year. He was charged with a 3rd degree felony of Organized Fraud ($1300 credit card fraud). He now has 4 years probation and can not leave the state, so he is stuck in Jacksonville despite wanting to return home.
http://www.postvoid.com/jax/main.html
Here is an excerpt:
QuoteExamples of how the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and the FDLE uses their funds:
There was 2 individuals that were extradited from Las Vegas in August 2006. Another defendant, Christopher McClellan, and myself. We were picked up from the Clark County Detention Center (Las Vegas) on 2 separate trips, when I asked the extradition officer why we would be picked up separately, the answer was, “so we could have 2 little vacationsâ€
The officers stayed at the Monte Carlo Casino and Hotel, a luxury hotel located on the Las Vegas Strip. They purchased airline tickets through Continental Airlines, using an American Express charge card, linked to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
To ensure that I or my other defendants would not be released from jail, our bond amounts were set at $250,000 each. This was the keystone in winning the convictions. Even, at the request of the prosecutor, Brandon Landis’s bond was reduced to $25,000, and he was allowed to go on a cruise vacation with his family in celebration of his jail release. Mr. Landis was granted immunity from collection of the $57,000 cost of investigation imposed by the FDLE.
Below you will read about some of the conditions that inmates endure while they are awaiting their plea agreement (I would say trial but very few cases ever go to trial. Most inmates crack after a few months of treatment in the Pre-Trial Detention Facility and accept anything just to get out of that jail).