Location | 8784 U.S. 27 Mayo, Florida |
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Status | mixed |
Capacity | 1345 |
Opened | 1984 |
Managed by | Florida Department of Corrections |
The Mayo Correctional Institution Annex is a state prison for men located in Mayo, Lafayette County, Florida. [1] This facility was opened in 1984 and has a maximum capacity of 1345 prisoners.
The original Mayo Correctional Institution on the same property held 1668 prisoners [2] and was closed by the state in 2012. On June 26, 2019 two inmates were alleged to have attacked a correctional officer with improvised weapons. While responding to the assault, staff reported that another inmate may have been killed in a separate part of the institution. The officer who was allegedly attacked was expected to survive. The officer who was attacked did survive and in January of 2021 was attacked by a different inmate suffering several stab wounds again. He also survived this incident. [3]
Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
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Jose Luis Del Toro Jr. | 166041 | Serving a life sentence. | Perpetrator of the 1997 Murder of Sheila Bellush in which he was hired by Bellush's ex-husband Allen Blackthorne to kill her. [4] [5] [6] |
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