Prison Facilities: The 137 prison facilities within the Florida Department of Corrections are divided into major institutions, annexes, work camps, work release centers, and road prisons throughout the state. The major institutions incarcerate 84.5% of the state prison inmates. These facilities incarcerate only those inmates convicted and sentenced to more than a year.
Inmates are classified into these different facilities based on the inmate's needs and the custody (security risk) of the inmate.
Facility profiles contained within this section present only the major institutions that incarcerate state prison inmates. These institutions do not incarcerate county jail inmates or those offenders on parole or serving one of the five types of state probation.
Introduction to Information on Florida Adult Community Supervision Offices
The Florida Department of Corrections currently supervises over 144,000 offenders in the community at accredited offices, including 151 field or administrative offices statewide. The state is divided into four regions and a regional office supports each. The Central Office of Community Corrections is located in Tallahassee and provides support, direction and operational oversight to regional offices and field staff.
The four regions are divided according to judicial circuits. Each circuit office contains a number of offices within a county or counties that provide an offender access for reporting and meeting with their individual officers.
Each office independently conducts interviews, investigations and drug testing as required. Depending on the level of community supervision, offenders report in for supervision daily, weekly, monthly or as directed by the releasing authority. In addition to office reporting, officers visit offenders at their home, employment sites and a variety of field locations. It is the goal of Community Corrections to ensure offender compliance with the orders of the sentencing /releasing authority. Increased standards for supervision provide for the enhanced safety of the community.
Custody Levels Determined by a scoring system and professional assessment that reflects the degree of supervision appropriate for an offender. Factors for consideration include, but are not limited to severity of offense, length of sentence, characteristics of sentence, criminal history, age and behavior. The five custody levels of an offender are:
1. Community: Community custody refers to that class of inmates who are eligible for placement at a community residential facility. 2. Minimum: Minimum custody refers to that class of inmates who are eligible for outside work assignments but not for placement at a community residential facility. 3. Medium: Medium custody refers to that class of inmates who are eligible for placement at a work camp with a secure perimeter but who are not eligible for placement in an outside work assignment without armed supervision. 4. Close: Close custody refers to that class of inmates who must be maintained within an armed perimeter or under direct, armed supervision when outside of a secure perimeter. 5. Maximum: Maximum custody refers to that class of inmates who are under a sentence of death.
What is Geocoding? Geocoding is term used to describe the act of address matching. Geocoding is the process of finding a geographic location (x, y point) for an address (such as street number and name, city, state, and ZIP Code) on a map. Geocoding is based off the typical address scheme for the US, in which one side of the street contains even house numbers while the other side of the street contains odd house numbers.
The geocoding process uses an algorithm to find the geographic location of addresses. First, a street segment is identified using the zip code and street name. Next, the geographic location of the address is matched using the building number to determine how far down the street and on which side of the street the building is located.
Geocoding Accuracy The locational accuracy of geocoded addresses may vary from urban to rural areas due to the algorithm used to generate the geographic locations of addresses. The algorithm assumes that the size of parcels are equivalent along a road route. This assumption tends to be more consistent in urban areas, where the size of parcels vary less than in rural areas. Consequently, the results of geocoded addresses in urban areas are usually more reliable than those in rural areas.
For example, the locational accuracy of rural addresses can be slightly off because some parcels along a rural route may be 15 acres while others may be 2.5 acres, but the geocoding algorithm assumes that the addresses are distributed evenly along the route.
A note about data scale:
Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data.
1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger.
Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our webpage at: <http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html>
Florida Department of Corrections Mailing Address: 2601 Blair Stone Road Tallahassee, Florida 32399 Phone: (850) 488-9859 FAX: (850) 922-4178 E-Mail: central.classification@mail.dc.state.fl.us Website: <http://www.dc.state.fl.us/index.html>
Introduction to Information on Florida Prison Facilities: <http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/ciindex.html>
Summary of Florida State Correctional Facilities: <http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/0506/facil.html>
Department of Corrections: <http://www.dc.state.fl.us/>
14 Different Sources Comprise the Law Enforcement Correctional Facility Dataset.
The following sources were either reprojected to the FGDL Albers NAD83 HPGN map projection or if no spatial data existed they were geocoded to a statewide 2007 TeleAtlas Streets dataset.
Once the point sources were created via geocoding or reprojected they were merged into one statewide layer.
Record (facility) duplications were removed by manually viewing the table for each of the 67 counties. Where record duplication existed source information of previously corrected FDOT Districts and Regional Planning Council data took preference followed by, County data, and finally geocoded data.
Below are the data Sources as described in the Source field in the attribute table.
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BROWARD COUNTY DATA:
Email Tami Price TPRICE@broward.org GIS Section Planning Services Division Urban Planning and Redevelopment Department (954) 357-6737
PoliceStations.shp
May 25, 2007
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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DTS DATA:
Data Transfer Solutions
DVD
1/18/2007
03_Marion_Law.shp 01_Flagler_Law.shp 05_Lake_Law.shp 02_Volusia_Law.shp 07_Orange_Law.shp 06_Seminole_Law.shp 04_Sumter_Law.shp 08_Osceola_Law.shp 09_Brevard_Law.shp
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
The DTS data was combined to create a district wide layer called: lawstat_d5_jan07.shp
The lawstat_d5_jan07.shp correctional facility points were added to the statewide layer.
The following lawstat_d5_jan07.shp AUTOIDs can be found in the new gc_correctional layer. 1, 3, 49, 50, 71, 127, 140, 145, 207, 239, 280, and 294
A few records were not added to the statewide layer because of the following: lawstat_d5_jan07.shp AUTOID
116 was already covered by MJPRIS_JUL07.shp 131 was already covered by MJPRIS_JUL07.shp 139 was already covered by MJPRIS_JUL07.shp 188 was already covered by MJPRIS_JUL07.shp 291 was already covered by MJPRIS_JUL07.shp 22 was already covered by MJPRIS_JUL07.shp
The lawstat_d5_jan07.shp AUTOID numbers can be found in the new statewide layer via the field OLD_AUTOID.
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ESCAMBIA COUNTY DATA:
EMAIL Jason M. Jones, GIS Analyst Escambia County Planning and Engineering G.I.S. Division 1190 W. Leonard St Pensacola, FL 32501 Office: (850) 595-3463 Fax: (850) 595-3482 jmjones@co.escambia.fl.us
sheriifs_dept.shp June 30th 2004
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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FDLE DATA:
<http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/cjst/publications/AgencyAddresses/>
GeoCoded Data to TeleAtlas Streets dataset
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FLDEPT CORRECTIONS
<http://www.dc.state.fl.us/orginfo/facilitydir.html>
GeoCoded Data to TeleAtlas Streets dataset
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HCSO DATA:
Email HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF
HCSOSubstationDistOffices.shp
January 11, 2008
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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LEON COUNTY DATA:
CD
common_places.shp
20050718
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
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MJPRIS_JUL07 DATA:
MJPRIS_JUL07.shp MAJOR PRISON FACILITIES - JULY 2007
FGDL Albers NAD83 HARN
Major Prison Facilities - July 2007 Process Steps:
GeoPlan collected the information in this dataset from the Florida Department of Corrections website (<http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/ciindex.html>) in July of 2007.
Tabular data was taken from the Summary of Florida State Correctional Facilities (<http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/0506/facil.html>) and from an official FDOC spreadsheet of locations and contact information. Only facilities listed as major institutions were used in this dataset. That list, broken up by prison facility region, can be found here: (<http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/ciindex.html>).
Facilities were geocoded and individually verified using high resolution imagery. 66 out of 72 records were manually edited to better represent the location of the prison facility.
- A DESCRIPT field was added based on NAME. - FGDLAQDATE was added based on date information was downloaded from source. - All fields were upcased Process Date: 20070717
The MJPRIS_JUL07.shp AUTOIDs can now be located in the new statewide layer field OLD_AUTOID.
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MONROE COUNTY DATA:
<http://monroecofl.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/MonroeCoFL_GIS/index>
CRISTICALFACILITIES.shp
12/15/2005
Coordinate system name: Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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OKALOOSA COUNTY DATA:
<ftp://ftpgis.co.okaloosa.fl.us/public/Shape%20Files/Service_Facility>
cfspt.shp
20061004
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_North_FIPS_0903_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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POLK COUNTY DATA:
<http://www.polksheriff.org/le/>
GeoCoded to TeleAtlas Streets dataset.
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SARASOTA COUNTY DATA:
<http://gis.co.sarasota.fl.us/data_download_page.asp>
SHERIFFOFFICES.shp
12/30/2007
Coordinate system name: *Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_West_FIPS_0902_Feet *Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983
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TGS DATA: TechnoGraphic Inc. data created for FDEM
fdem_correctional_aug07.shp
Lat Long decimal degrees WGS84
The fdem_correctional_aug07.shp AUTOIDs can now be located in the new statewide layer field OLD_AUTOID.
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WEBSITE DATA:
Various County websites
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-Upper cased all records. -Added DESCRIPT field based on TYPE -Socio-Cultural Effect data fields and definitions were added. USNG_FL_1K, OLD_AUTOID, FLAG, UPDATE_DAY, AUTOID, NAME, ADDRESS, CITY, ZIPCODE, OPERATING, OP_CLASS, SERVICES, COMMON_USE, USE, YR_BUILT, FGDLAQDATE.
The information from the GC_CORRECTIONAL_MAR08.SHP was copied to create the GC_CORRECTIOANL_MAY08.shp layer.
Next 151 records where the field [TYPE] = 'PROBATION AND PAROLE SERVICES' were deleted from the newly created GC_CORRECTIOANL_MAY08.shp layer.
During this process two DTS points were removed, original autoids = 1, and 50.
Next two Regional Personal Offices were removed to leave the final feature count at 264.
Finally the FGDLAQDATE and AUTOID fields were updated.