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Sheriff Frank Stoutamire

Built 1911-1913. The cell block was added in the late 1920s.

Leroy Collins with Florida highway patrolmen signing highway patrol bill

This was the official opening of Florida's first state-wide training school for law enforcement officers. Sheriffs and other law officers mingled with high state officials outside the main building moments before the indoor ceremonies started.…

Sheriff Baker was instrumental in bringing the Ashley gang of bank robbers to justice.

He served as Orange County sheriff from 1948 until 1972 and was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Built in 1909, it served as a jail until 1971. A total of sixteen sheriffs oversaw its administration, including two women.

The interior of the ground floor cell of the women's jail.

The main cell block, nicknamed "the bullpen," is located on the jail's top floor.