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From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]
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]
Florida passed HB 1371, the Prisoner Release Reoffender Act, in May 1997. [2] This so-called "two-strikes" law dictates that individuals convicted of certain categories of crime who reoffend within three years is subject to life in prison without parole, even if this is only a second offense, gaining the distinction of, "one of the strictest sentencing laws in the US."
A first-of-its-kind analysis is aiming to become a benchmark for tracking the full scope of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.
The total number of minors obtained through this method was similar to the number of children tried in adult court that the Herald calculated from a separate dataset maintained by the Florida ...
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Drug offenses account for the incarceration of about 1 in 5 people in U.S. prisons. [7] Violent offenses account for over 3 in 5 people (62%) in state prisons. [7] Property offenses account for the incarceration of about 1 in 7 people (14%) in state prisons. [7] The United States maintains a higher incarceration rate than most developed ...
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 ...