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ing a patient, in fact, there was no
doctor at all unless it was a hangin’
day. Inmates either walk out of the
infirmary on their own two feet
or they are carried out in a box.
Could you imagine that happening
today? Jails today are staffed
with doctors and nurses around
the clock. All inmates get a medical
screening when they are first
processed and any medical care
that they need while incarcerated
is taken care, whether it is diabetes,
chemotherapy for cancer patients,
or even surgery. Maximum security at the Old Jail has
a common area that can be used by the inmates for exercise,
inmates in maximum never go outside. This is
something that the courts have since labeled cruel and
unusual punishment. Today all prisoners must be given
a certain amount of time outside every week.
Just like in the St. Johns County Jail of today, the food
preparation is done by the female inmates. At the Old
Jail ladies are shown the kitchen and given a description
of what their chores will be;the tools they will use
to transport food, make coffee, and cook. They maintain
a garden that supports the beans and greens that
they eat on a daily basis. This is another practice used
by many jails today. Jails can save a lot of money by establishing
a small farm that supports the diets of their
prisoners. However, unlike the jails of yesterday, if
something that happens that prevents their farm from
supporting their inmates those jails still have to feed
their prisoners. Not only do they have to provide the
inmates with food, but they have to respect the inmates’
religious and medical diet as well.
Upstairs is general population,where the male inmates
will be housed together. Unlike today,
there was no attempt to separate
violent inmates from non-violent
inmates. Inmates of different
ages were kept together, and inmate
safety was not a top priority.
The inmates kept in general population
were forced to work on the
chain gangs, and were woken every
morning at 5:00a.m. and taken
to the work site, sometimes they
would even be made to sleep on
the transport cart at night until the
work was done. Today inmates are
still compelled to work, but first they have to pass the
medical and religious screenings to be sure that they are
fit to work, and that the work being done doesn’t violate
their beliefs. The inmates work for the county that they
are incarcerated in. Landscaping, painting, roadside
cleanup, etc.; in fact, St. Johns County has programs
in place to certify inmates in trades such as landscaping,
pressure washing, and serve safe so that they have
some tools they can build on when they are released.
St. Johns County also administers work release, which
allows certain inmates to go to work and make money.
The money they make pays for their room and board
at the county jail, as well paying toward their fines and
restitution. Anything left over can be put aside for
their use when
they are released.
One hundred
years ago, the
inmates did
the least desirable
work available,
the work
that no one else
wanted to do.
They worked in
turpentine camps, built roads, and worked on swamp
drainage.
There have been a lot of changes over the years in the
county jail system. Some people visit the Old Jail and
comment on how horrible the conditions were. Some
believe that jails should still be this way. Everyone has
their own ideas and opinions about how things should
be. Take a trip through time at the St. Johns County Jail
and decide for yourself. PN
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