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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 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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Women's prisons in Florida" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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."
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]
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is the government agency responsible for operating state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in the state capital of Tallahassee. The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the United States. As of July 2022, FDC had an inmate ...
Both institutions form part of the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Coleman and are operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. [1] [2] FCC Coleman is located in central Florida approximately 50 miles northwest of Orlando, 60 miles northeast of Tampa, and 35 miles south of Ocala. [1] [2]