Mayo Correctional Institution Annex

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.

Mayo Correctional Institution Annex

Location	8784 U.S. 27 Mayo, Florida
Status	mixed
Capacity	1345
Opened	1984
Managed by	Florida Department of Corrections

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]

Notable Inmates

Inmate Name	Register Number	Status	Details
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]