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  2. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    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.

  3. List of Florida state prisons - Wikipedia

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    The State of Florida operates almost all of its major institutions and most of its lesser facilities. 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 ...

  4. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Florida leads the nation in placing state prisons in the hands of private, profit-making companies. In recent years, the state has privatized the entirety of its $183 million juvenile commitment system — the nation’s third-largest, trailing only California and Texas.

  5. Florida prisons are too hot. Just ask the guards. | Editorial

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    We are aware that few Floridians spend time worrying about furnacelike conditions inside the state’s 143 prison facilities, where many of the housing units need replacing and fewer than 1 in 4 ...

  6. Florida's prisons ineffective and outdated - AOL

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    Florida taxpayers pay more to maintain ineffective and outdated prison system

  7. Florida Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The prison now known as Florida State Prison opened in 1961 as the East Annex; at the time of opening it began to house the execution chamber. [15] At some point the Broward Correctional Institution housed female death row inmates. [16] Lowell Annex opened in April 2002. [17] The female death row was moved to Lowell Annex in February 2003. [18]

  8. Prison reform advocates sue in federal court for air ... - AOL

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    The lawsuit says the lack of air conditioning in prisons amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment." Prison reform advocates sue in federal court for air ...

  9. Prison Legal News v. Secretary, Florida Department of ...

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    Prison Legal News v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, 890 F.3d 954 (11th Cir. 2018), [1] was a case before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in which the Court held that a prison's ban of the Prison Legal News (PLN) monthly magazine did not violate the First Amendment, but its failure to give notice as required by its own rules violated the Fourteenth Amendment.