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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 ...
Raiford State Prison baseball team, 1939. Florida's largest and oldest correctional institution was established in 1913 to house infirm inmates who could not be leased to private businesses. [3] The initial population of the prison was close to 600 inmates, both male and female. [4]
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. [1]
After a decade of federal monitors faulting Miami-Dade County jails, inspectors say the Corrections Department has met all demands set by the U.S. Department of Justice in a 2013 lawsuit against ...
A Miami-Dade jail inmate found unconscious in his cell last month died of a fentanyl overdose, the latest in a string of inmate deaths that have alarmed a federal court monitoring the troubled ...
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.
Florida, where Miami-Dade is demonstrating a better path forward, should certainly do the same. The criminal justice system was never meant to become the option of last resort for the mentally ill.
Dade Correctional Institution Archived 2014-08-06 at the Wayback Machine." Florida Department of Corrections. "A Conceptual Land Use Plan for Dade Correctional Institution and Homestead Correctional Institution Dade County, Florida 2009-2019" . Florida Department of Corrections Land Management Section, Bureau of Procurement and Supply.