What started out as a typical First Amendment audit outside of the Gadsden County Jail and the Florida Department of Corrections' Quincy Annex quickly turned into an illegal detention.

As PINAC investigative reporter Jeff Gray stood on a public sidewalk in Quincy, Florida earlier this month, taking pictures of the facilities and inmates, he noticed two unattended state inmates washing what appeared to be personal vehicles of FDOC staff.

As Gray took photos of the inmates, three FDOC officers approached him and claimed that it was illegal to take pictures of inmates as well as the facility....