Contempt order exposes funding gap for Polk County Jail detainee drug evaluations

Longtime provider of inmate evaluations pulls out of Polk County Jail after it's ruled in contempt for insisting on payment ...
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Operation ‘Fool Around and Find Out – Again’ leads to 246 arrests, Sheriff Judd says

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Hundreds of people have been arrested in another “Fool Around and Find Out — Again” operation. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said deputies are doing all they can do to ...

Here's why Martin County Sheriff's Office has Florida's 3rd-highest immigration encounters

They’re bringing in their detainees from all over the region, putting them in our jails, and we’re reporting it," Sheriff ...
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Florida man with thermos inserted in body caught sneaking it into Polk County Jail: ‘Put it up the exit ramp'

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a man tried to smuggle a thermos into the jail by having it inserted inside of him. Walter Frymire, 51, was initially accused of being naked in a public park. Judd ...