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1,456 / 1,500 (annex) Opened. 1956. Managed by. Florida Department of Corrections. Lowell Correctional Institution is a women's prison in unincorporated Marion County, Florida, [1][2] north of Ocala, in the unincorporated area of Lowell. A part of the Florida Department of Corrections, it serves as the primary prison for women in the state.
The Florida Women's Reception Center (FWRC) is a state prison for women located in Ocala, Marion County, Florida, owned and operated by the Florida Department of Corrections. [1] This facility has multiple missions for Florida state female inmates: "reception, in-patient mental health, faith, and character based (programs) and general population."
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 State Prison is the only facility in the state officially titled a "Prison". [citation needed]
Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee (FCI Tallahassee), is a low security United States federal prison for female inmates in Tallahassee, Florida with a designed designated capacity of 812. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent detention center ...
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Maryland Correctional Institution for Women. Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center. Mississippi State Penitentiary. Montana Women's Prison. Montgomery Women's Facility.
Gadsden Correctional Facility. The Gadsden Correctional Facility is a private state prison for women located in Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida, operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) under contract with the Florida Department of Corrections. [ 1 ] This facility was opened in 1995 and has a maximum capacity of 1544 prisoners.
In the United States, authorities began housing women in correctional facilities separate from men in the 1870s. [21] The first American female correctional facility with dedicated buildings and staff was the Mount Pleasant Female Prison in Ossining, New York; the facility had some operational dependence on nearby Sing Sing, a men's prison. [22]