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The Charlotte Correctional Institution is a state prison for men located in Punta Gorda, Charlotte County, Florida, owned and operated by the Florida Department of Corrections. [1] This facility has a mix of security levels, including minimum, medium, and close, and houses adult male prisoners.
The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office has jurisdiction throughout Charlotte County, which is divided into four districts. District 1 covers the area west of the Myakka River, including Boca Grande, Englewood, the Gulf Cove area of Port Charlotte, Knights Island, Little Gasparilla Island, Placida, and Rotonda West.
The 464-bed minimum security detention facility was completed in September 2007, built with $27.4 million in high interest revenue bonds issued by the city's new industrial development corporation, the Two Rivers Port Authority (TRA) [1] and sold by bond brokers Municipal Capital Markets and Herbert J. Sims. It fostered the hopes of creating ...
Before 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft × 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft (1.8 m × 1.1 m). [11]
Parry Sound Jail 1878 2001 Peel County Jail (see Brampton Jail) Pembroke Jail 1867 2004 Peterborough Jail 1842 2001 Picton Jail 1834 1971 Port Dalhousie Jail 1845 Project Turnaround (operated by Encourage Youth Corporation) 1997 2004 Renfrew County Gaol 1866 2004 Rideau Correctional and Treatment Centre (Burritts Rapids) 1947 2004
The four inmates, all held in connection with violent crimes, escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail north of New Orleans, according to a Facebook post from Sheriff Daniel Edwards. Two were taken ...
The prison consists of twelve housing units. Six units contain 36 cells each, divided into 12 two-man cells and 24 four-man cells. Four units have open bay dormitories totaling 846 beds. One unit with 184 beds houses 92 Faith and Character inmates and 92 Incentive Inmates. The prison includes a 74-bed segregation unit and a 12-bed infirmary.
Southport became the scene of a riot on June 26, 1990, when fighting broke out among a group of approximately 250 inmates, eight of whom were injured in the melee, along with 19 members of the prison's staff. Another incident, this one involving the taking of four employees as hostages, followed on May 28, 1991.