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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 which covers the southern portion of the peninsula.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 107 people. Of the 107 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 63 have been executed by lethal injection .
In 2022, the Florida Department of Management Services selected global consulting firm KPMG to produce a 20-year master plan for the Florida Department of Corrections. The report, finalized in ...
This is a list of longest prison sentences served by a single person, worldwide, without a period of freedom followed by a second conviction. These cases rarely coincide with the longest prison sentences given, because some countries have laws that do not allow sentences without parole or for convicts to remain in prison beyond a given number of years (regardless of their original conviction).
The inmate had been serving a life sentence for the 1997 strangulation of his wife, 44-year-old Linda Barnes, when he wrote letters in 2005 to a state prosecutor claiming responsibility for ...
The story of a mentally ill man jailed on littering charges who killed himself by taking a chainsaw to his neck while on work duty at a state prison near Miami provokes a visceral reaction. We ...
Pitts and Lee v. Florida (1963) (often referred to as the Pitts-Lee case) was a criminal case in which two African-American defendants were charged with murder. The case is remembered for its Civil Rights implications, and because it involved two death-row inmates who were later exonerated.