The Monroe County Sheriff's and Clerk's Offices are working together to issue non-driver IDs to county jail inmates.
Until this program, some inmates have been released without identification.
Captain John Kennedy says some asked to keep their wristbands that have a name and photo, but that’s often the image when they were first arrested.
"You need a photo ID in some places to get mental health assistance, to get into programs they want that ID. And to have someone use a photo from probably one of the worst nights of their lives, to use that as an ID? It just, there is a stigma associated with it."
Kennedy says the inmates change clothes for their ID photos.
County Clerk Adam Bello says the process comes at no cost to taxpayers, with all funding coming from commissary facilities profits.
Bello says this is an example of government offices working together to work through problems creatively.
"I think this is a way that we've shown you can do more with less, we can serve more people. And again when you're talking long term about the barriers to lifting out of poverty, the barriers to coming out of the cycle of being in the criminal justice system, there’s a long term impact to this as well."
14 IDs have been processed at the facility so far.