Florida State Prisons
Florida State Prisons
Updated: 06/26/2024
Florida State Prisons – A prison, also known as a jail, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center. It’s a facility where people are confined against their will. They are denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes. It’s a place of confinement especially for lawbreakers. A building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial. As Florida’s largest State agency, and the third largest state prison system in the country, FDC employs nearly 24,000 members. The Florida Department of Corrections incarcerates over 80,000 inmates and supervises more than 146,000 offenders in the sunshine state.
Studies show that Florida has an incarceration rate of 795 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities). Meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than any democratic country on earth. Additionally, the number of people impacted by county and city jails in Florida is much larger than you would think, because people cycle through local jails relatively quickly. Each year, at least 350,000 different people are booked into local jails in Florida.
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