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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.
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is the government agency responsible for operating state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in the state capital of Tallahassee. The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the United States.
The DOC operates the Central Detention Facility (), at 1901 D Street Southeast.The jail opened in 1976. [4]In 1985, a federal judge in the case of Campbell v.McGruder, a lawsuit filed against the District of Columbia for unconstitutional jail conditions, set a population cap of 1,674 inmates for the D.C. Jail. [5] This judicially imposed cap was lifted in 2002, after seventeen years.
There were three suicides over the period of two months. [11] [12] An HIV-positive deaf man sued the D.C. Jail, claiming he was denied medical care and was retaliated against for complaining about jail conditions. [13] [14] In 2014, there was debate over health care provider services at the jail. [15] [16]
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.
She wrote that there had been constant accusations of poor treatment of mentally ill prisoners, poor conditions in the food preparation area, and other concerns. [ 8 ] In 2014 former Dade CI prisoner Harold Hempstead accused prison authorities of fatally torturing prisoner Darren Rainey by scalding him with 180 °F (82 °C) water in a shower ...
As of 2012 624 prisoners, all female, were housed there. [6] The facility was closed in 2012. [9] Closure was scheduled for May 1 of that year. The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel said "BCI was determined to have a relatively low population and a high per diem inmate cost of $111.48." ($150.99 when adjusted for inflation) [6]
An inmate who became pregnant while in a Florida county jail is scheduled to have a hearing on Jan. 24 in which she will request a transfer to house arrest, her attorney said Thursday.. Daisy Link ...