Florida Department of Corrections
| Florida Department of Corrections | |
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Patch of the Florida Department of Corrections
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| Motto | "Inspiring success by transforming one life at a time." |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1978 |
| Preceding agency | Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation |
| Employees | 23,525 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Florida, USA |
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| Map of Florida Department of Corrections's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 65,795 square miles (170,410 km2) |
| Population | 18,328,340 (2008 est.) |
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| Headquarters | Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
| Agency executive | Julie Jones, Secretary |
| Website | |
| Florida DOC Website | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Florida Department of Corrections operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in Florida's capital of Tallahassee.
The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the United States. It is the largest agency administered by the State of Florida, with a budget of $2.4 billion, a little over 100,000 inmates incarcerated and another 115,000+ offenders on some type of community supervision.
The Florida Department of Corrections has 143 facilities statewide, including 43 major institutions, 33 work camps, 15 Annexes, 20 work release centers and 6 road prisons/forestry camps. It has more than 23,000 employees, about three-quarters of whom are either certified corrections officers or probation officers. Florida Department of Corrections has K9 units statewide that are frequently utilized for tracking escapees and, in cases of small or rural law enforcement agencies, criminals who have fled from law enforcement.
Florida's first penitentiary was opened in the U.S. arsenal property at Chattahoochee in 1868.
From 1991 to 2010, major crime rate, per capita, dropped 52%. Major crimes include homicide, rape, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, theft, auto theft and arson. This led, in turn, to fewer new convictions and imprisonments, leading to closure of facilities. The number of new annual admissions peaked at 42,000 in 2007. It dropped to 35,000 new admissions in 2011.
In 2013, the Florida Corrections Secretary reported that 87% of all inmates would eventually be released back into society.
Incarceration is determined by the judge on the basis of a point system. On various scoresheets, if the criminal or crime scores above 44, imprisonment is mandatory; under 22, the convict may not be imprisoned. Between the two, judges have discretion.
Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution each have a male death row, while Lowell Annex has the female death row. Florida State Prison houses the state's execution chamber. Unlike other prisoners, condemned prisoners wear orange T-shirts. Condemned prisoners wear the same blue trousers worn by other prisoners.
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