Corrections Annual Report - Volusia County Government

V OLUSI A COUNTY DIVISION OF CORRE CTIONSP AG E 3There are two facilities under the Corrections Divisionjurisdiction. Both are off U.S. 92, west of DaytonaBeach and east of DeLand.The Volusia County Correctional Facility (VCCF) openedin November 1977. The Volusia County Branch Jail(VCBJ) was completed in late 1986 and becameoperational in 1987. The Correctional Facility and theBranch Jail are designed to hold fewer inmates thanthey currently confine.The initial design capacity of the VCBJ is 601; it’sauthorized capacity is 899. The Volusia CountyCorrectional Facility has an original design capacity ofCorrectional facilities234. Presently, the authorized capacity is 595. Theauthorized capacity for both facilities is 1,494.The Volusia County Division of Corrections is a VolusiaCounty correctional agency, supported by local propertytax dollars. Volusia’s jails are inspected annually bycertified county jail inspectors from other county jails inaccordance with the Florida Model Jail Standards. Theannual inspection includes a population status report; areview of admission, classification, and release policies;an inspection of housing and food service areas, securityand control, and sanitation. Volusia County’s correctionalfacilities were recently certified to be in compliance withthe Florida Model Jail Standards on June 3, 2011.Corrections’ data is compiled from a number of sources.Most commonly, staff track daily bookings andadmissions.A booking is considered a jail entry.Another way to look at bookings is toconsider that each booking denotes theentry of a person into custody. The averagedaily population figure is generated fromdaily housing rosters. Average dailypopulation refers to how many beds areoccupied each day.Corrections also records inmate charges.Inmates are commonly booked for more than onecharge during the same booking. Many inmatesreceived added charges while incarcerated.These typically include arrests for bond surrenders and/oroutstanding warrants. Charges are tracked using thestate’s AON/FCIC (Florida Crime Information Center)coding system.The majority of data, including bookings and charges,comes from the County’s Criminal Justice InformationCorrections data2011 ANNUAL REPORTSystem (CJIS) and the Jail Management System(JMS).The CJIS system is a case-tracking system; itoriginates with the court system and is used by allcriminal justice agencies. JMS software isfor jail use only. Transitioning to JMS datamay cause some 2010 to be incomparableto data collected prior to 2009.Most of the comparative data in this reportis from Jail Inmates at Midyear 2011compiled and published by the U. S.Bureau of Justice Statistics, and theFlorida County Detention Facilities’Average Inmate Population, 2011compiled and published by the FloridaState Department of Corrections.Published reports usually lag a year or two(sometimes longer) behind current information. It isthe most current published information available forthis report.