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The Federal Correctional Institution, Miami (FCI Miami) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Florida. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a division of the United States Department of Justice. The institution also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male offenders. [1]
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.
The MDCR operates six detention facilities with a system-wide average of approximately 7,000 inmates, and books approximately 114,000 inmates annually (312 per day). Several facilities are nationally accredited by the American Correctional Association at the state level by the Florida Corrections Accreditation Commission
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 houses adult males. It opened in September 1996. [3] It is a part of the Florida Department of Corrections, and is right next to the Homestead Correctional Institution which houses female inmates. [5] It is about 40 miles (64 km) south of the Miami central business district. [6]
In 2006, the Bureau of Prisons decided to cut costs by closing the Federal Prison Camp, Eglin, which was located at Eglin Air Force Base, in Okaloosa County, Florida, and moving the inmates to FPC Pensacola. [4] In July 2009, Forbes magazine listed the prison as the number two "cushiest prison" in the United States. [5]
Some 12-step-based halfway houses have even refused to take in Hazelden graduates. “I talked to the people at the [Narcotics Anonymous] national office. And NA privately recognizes that it is extremely important that there’s treatments for opioid dependence besides just abstinence,” Seppala said.
Data published in the Federal Register in September shows it cost $116.91 per day to house a federal inmate compared to $107.39 per day in a halfway house. The cost for home confinement ...