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1990

Legislature authorizes over 9,000 new prison beds, including three new prisons, a privately run prison and expansion of existing facilities.

OBIS: New databases implemented this year include the Offender Time Computation (OTC), Investigative Tracking & Stats (ITS), Court Ordered Payments (COPS) and Control Release Information System (CRIS). The Cashless Canteen system is implemented. It helps with the problems created by cash on the prison compound (theft, bribery, intimidation) and streamlines the process of purchasing from the canteen.

The Reception and Medical Center is expanded to include a West Unit. Walton Correctional Institution (De Funiak Springs, FL) opens.

Donald Dillbeck

On June 22, 1990, Florida inmate Donald Dillbeck escapes from Quincy Vocational Center (QVC) near Tallahassee while working on an inmate catering crew outside of the facility. Dillbeck kills a woman in the parking lot of a Tallahassee mall shortly after his escape. As a result, the entire work release system is revamped, affecting hundreds of inmates by tightening the eligibility requirements for inmates allowed on work release. Ironically, QVC is not a work release center, but a close custody facility that specializes in training inmates to prepare and serve food and desserts in the food service industry. (Generally, work release centers are unsecured, minimum and medium custody facilities.) Dillbeck is currently on Death Row.

Berkeley Clayton was a Tallahassee Police Department homicide investigator who worked the Dillbeck case. He adds an interesting piece to the puzzle of what happened that day. "Dillbeck attacked the victim while she was sitting in her car in the parking lot of the mall waiting on family to return to the car from shopping.  He killed her to get the car, but could not drive it away because he did not know how to drive the standard transmission that was in the car," according to Clayton.

Handcuffing inmate

Officer performs count

Dominique Day using the automated cost of supervision receipt system at the Gainesville Main P&P Office.

Correctional Probation Officers attending sex offender training class.

New laminated photo identification badge (ID Badge) system. The badges are used to charge an inmate's purchase against the computerized cashless canteen at Madison C.I.

Infra-red bar-code scanner being used at Madison C.I. cashless canteen.