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Privately operated prisons in Florida are called "Correctional Facilities" (for example, Lake City Correctional Facility) while state operated facilities are called "Correctional Institutions" (i.e. Union Correctional Institution). Florida State Prison is the only facility in the state officially titled a "Prison". [citation needed]
The Broward Correctional Institution served as a reception center for female inmates. As of 2011, a staff of approximately 272 individuals serviced the facility. [1] 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 Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is a public safety organization with 5,400 employees, [2] it is the largest sheriff's office in the state of Florida. Sheriff Gregory Tony heads the agency. BSO was one of the United States' largest fully-accredited sheriff's offices before losing accreditation (by unanimous vote) in 2019. [ 4 ]
The headquarters of the Broward Sheriff’s Office closed its front doors to the public early Thursday morning as a group of BSO deputies and corrections officers turned themselves in after being ...
A military mom from Texas who had traveled to South Florida for the winter holidays was forced to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in a Broward County jail and miss seeing her son before he ...
Kevin Desir was arrested on Jan. 13, 2021, after a traffic crash where marijuana was found in his car. He would be dead two weeks later. Desir, 43, was held briefly in the Broward County jail that ...
He also had a pending trial for DUI damage to the property or person of another, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Jail or Agency: Broward County Jails; State: Florida; Date arrested or booked: 3/22/2016; Date of death: 4/5/2016; Age at death: 54; Sources: Broward County Sheriff's Office
The Department 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 almost 24,000 employees, about three-quarters of whom are either sworn certified corrections officers or sworn certified probation officers. The Department has K9 units ...