Seventeen Osceola County corrections employees have been put on paid leave for violating jail policy leading up to the escape of 21-year-old Michael Rigby last month.

A sergeant, six corporals and 10 officers will face final disciplinary action pending the finalization of reports on the Feb. 19 escape, county officials said. The announcement of their paid leave, effective since last Friday, came more than two weeks after the county released a report on the escape listing more than 20 employees who violated jail policy.

Former corrections Officer Milton Caraballo, who resigned March 12 after he was put on administrative leave, has been arrested, accused of providing Rigby with a metal binder clip that he allegedly used to carve out a hole behind the toilet/sink unit in his cell.

Six officers and three corporals now on leave were responsible for searching high-risk cells in the two weeks while Rigby and his cellmate planned the escape. In the March 2 report, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office reported the employees didn’t move a towel covering a hole in the sink, make Rigby move away from where he was supposedly sick over the toilet or find the contraband tools he was using to make the hole for his escape.

Officers Ray Oliver, Richard Leblanc, Heather Hernandez, Carlos Ramirez, Dominique Fousse and Warren Willets, along with corporals Mark Goldsmith, Jamie Chambers and Angelo Thomas, were among those put on administrative leave for unsuccessful cell searches.

Also on leave are officers Jarrod Lowe and Bradley Larson, who searched Rigby’s cell hours before he escaped, while Cpl. Jason Pietarila, also named, supervised. Lowe made 14 visual checks into Rigby’s cell after he had escaped and failed to notice the pile of blankets in his bunk was a decoy, according to the report.

Officer Miller Chavous, who first reported the escape after Rigby’s cellmate pointed out his disappearance when Chavous came to deliver breakfast Feb 19, also was listed as being on leave.

Corporals Stephanie Carbajal, Tiesha Tomlinson and Officer Mark Ruiz, not previously found in violation of jail policy, also are on administrative leave.

Six jail employees previously listed in violation of policy and procedure in the investigation of Rigby’s escape have not been put on administrative leave, including two officers who might have assisted in previous searches of Rigby’s cell. Four civilians also were found in violation of policy, charged with not making proper entries in the logbook for the high-risk portion of the jail. They have not been put on administrative leave.

Lt. Vernon Herrington, watch commander when Rigby’s escape was discovered, initially was cited for not notifying the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office quickly enough, but has not been placed on administrative leave.

County officials said further disciplinary action is pending.

Rigby was the first of two inmates to escape from the Osceola County Jail in a month. While the county investigated the first escape and defined the security failings of the jail facility, minimum-security inmate Carlos Rosa escaped March 16.

Corrections Director Greg Futch, who secured about $4 million in corrective upgrades for the jail from the county commission in the wake of Rosa’s escape, has put in an application for chief of police in Ormond Beach, according to reports.