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Florida's Lax Oversight Enables Systemic Abuse At Private Youth Prisons Prisoners of Profit Former employees and inmates have alleged poor staffing and supervision at the Broward Girls Academy in Pembroke Pines, Fla., operated by Youth Services International since 2010.
The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the United States. As of July 2022, FDC had an inmate population of approximately 84,700 and over 200,000 offenders in community supervision programs. [3] It is the largest agency administered by the State of Florida with a budget of $3.3 billion. [4]
The Florida Department of Corrections [1] is divided into four regions, each representing a specific geographical area of the state. Region I [ 2 ] is the panhandle area, Region II [ 3 ] is the north-east and north-central areas, Region III [ 4 ] consist of central Florida and Region IV [1] which covers the southern portion of the peninsula.
It was formerly known as the "Florida State Prison-East Unit" as it was originally part of Florida State Prison near Raiford (now known as Union Correctional Institution). The facility, a part of the Florida Department of Corrections, is located on State Road 16 right across the border from Union County. The institution opened in 1961, even ...
Florida logs reports of serious incidents that occur inside its juvenile prisons, but the state does not maintain a database that allows for the analysis of trends across the system. HuffPost obtained the documents through Florida’s public records law and compiled incident reports logged between 2008 and 2012.
The report, finalized in late 2023, underscores a looming crisis within our prison system — a crisis marked by aging infrastructure, staffing shortages and a projected increase in the inmate ...
A Florida death row inmate set to be executed Thursday in the 1994 killing of a college student says he's innocent and that his life should be spared because of "horrific abuse" he suffered at a ...
James Phillip Barnes, 61, refused a last meal and had nothing to say on Thursday before receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. He was pronounced dead at 6.13pm. (Florida ...