Prison Name: | Mayo Correctional Institution Annex |
Status: | mixed |
Capacity: | 1345 |
Opened: | 1984 |
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]
width=18% | Inmate Name | width=10% | Register Number | width=28% | Status | width=35% | 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] |