Flagler County jail awarded 2023 American Jail Association’s Innovation Award

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility won the award for the medium-sized facilities division.

By Observer Staff
| 8:25 a.m. May 30, 2023

Sheriff Rick Staly and other FCSO employees at the American Jail Association's 42nd Conference and Jail Expo on May 23, in Omaha, Nebraska. Courtesy photo.

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The Flagler County jail has been awarded the 2023 Innovation Award for medium-sized facilities by the American Jail Association.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility won the award for its inmate service programs, according to a press release from the FCSO.

Sheriff Rick Staly and Court and Detention Services Chief Dan Engert accepted the award at AJA’s 42nd Conference and Jail Expo in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 23.

The award is presented to facilities that have developed innovative and progressive approaches that will help the industry, the press release said.

At Flagler County’s facility, the FCSO partners with Flagler Technical College for its Homeward Bound Program, which gives inmates an opportunity to obtain job certifications in food service management, vinyl graphics application or an HVAC pre-apprenticeship program.

The jail also offers the Successful Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Treatment program to address substance use disorders and mental illness, the press release said.

“This is a huge honor for our detention team, FCSO and the community to be recognized and selected as a model for jails across the country to emulate,” Staly said.