Slammed by staff shortages and ‘desperation,’ some North Florida prisons to shutter
The Florida Department of Corrections will soon close multiple prisons in North Florida, a last-ditch effort to grapple with severe staff shortages, according to a union representative who talked to Corrections Secretary Mark Inch about the move on Thursday.
Prison officials plan to shutter Baker Correctional Institution and New River Correctional Institution in the coming weeks, said Jim Baiardi, the president of the Corrections Chapter of the Police Benevolent Association. Cross City Correctional Institution, which has been closed due to flooding damage, will continue to be closed for an indeterminate amount of time.
Some work camps, including Gainesville Work Camp, and smaller prison annexes in other parts of the state may also close soon, Baiardi said.
Part of me applauds the prison closures, but I fear that inmates and parolees will just get shafted with overcrowding and a decrease in programs.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Too funny.
I guess decent people don’t want to work in their BS. Maybe they should make their places a better place to work?
Or they could actually buck up and pay people what they should. If you are going to run a big carceral business and lock up millions of your supposedly “fellow” citizens, you are going to have to steal enough money to run it. Can’t they fleece more taxpayer dollars? More likely is that they are putting far, far too much money into the hands of the “people” in the upper echelons of their business and they want to take advantage of under-educated, under-paid workers.
Not surprised in the least. The Florida prison system has been woefully understaffed for years.
Personal opinion… If early release ever becomes a reality again, anyone with a sex crime will be automatically ineligible. Reason? The DoC quietly stopped giving gain time to most anyone with a sex crime that occurred after October 1, 2014.
What statute or policy decision is this listed under? Where did you get yor information? Curious
@bwj
The chapter 33’s that can be viewed while in prison. I came across the notice of its implementation at some point while in the law library. I have yet to find any reference to it online however.
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Thank you for the help. I’ll see what I can find out. Stay safe.
Perhaps they will early release some inmates like they did back in the late 1980s. But probably anyone with a sex offense would be exempt. I was surprised I only did 40% of my sentence in prison. Half way through my sentence they changed it to you having to do 85% of your sentence but did not make it retroactive or they would have had riots.
So with these prisons closer where will the inmates be transferred to and are those prisons decent? I remember reading about the abuses in prison across Florida; however I don’t recall anything being done. Nobody should be tortured or treated inhuman.
I guess I consider myself lucky that I never had to deal with abuse by guards in Nebraska. Heck I did get two rounds of scabies though; while my parents and lawyer got me treatment on the outside. Oh and I complained about two guards when I wanted to know who stole my radio. They talked down to me and asked me who I paid rent to, so I asked them for a grievance form and submitted it. That almost got them fired and they told me I wasn’t as dumb as they thought. Funny the joke was on them.
And this is a Bad Thing ??? Lol. Only bad thing I really see about these closing is, That means all those inmate’s with be Packed in the other Prisons !! Like they aren’t packed like sardines already !?!?!?. Cause you can Bet Your AZZ that Floriduh sure ain’t gonna slow down on the amount of people they send to prison !!!!. Florida as well as Most every State in the USA LOVES PUTTING PEOPLE AWAY IN PRISON !!. I mean we’re 2% Of the WORLDS Population, But we have 25% OF THE WORLDS POPULATION LOCKED UP !!!!!!. That says something as a Nation !!!.
Yup, that’s a shame. 😒
Other people have pointed out where will they put the 1000 people at those prisons.
I also thought, because I lived in north Florida, there are prisons in almost every county, like ten to fifteen miles apart, roughly. Some guards are not worth anything, some water decent people just trying to provide for their families. Those prisons are the only major employment in town, ie Holmes county. It’s going to affect those families, and that sucks for them. Florida has been dragging those guards for a long time not paying enough and working the heck out of them.
I’m not sad that they are closing places. Some of them are in horrible shape. The three C’s are supposed to be care, custody and control. They have always failed at care in my experience. Hopefully a positive change will come from this. Unfortunately I don’t think the prison population had the proper mindset to influence those changes.
Cry me a river, the only people I feel sorry for, are the inmates.
It is very interesting that several AGENCIES, along with De-Satan VISITED ‘Good Ole’ Suwannee Correctional Institution (probably, one of the most notorious Flori-Duh State Prisons, which are staffed by the most CORRUPT and BALL-BUSTING GUARDS, ANYONE, AS EVER WITNESSED….
-I witnessed 2 Inmates get killed by Guards, there……
…..’Like, I was going to Fill Out a Grievance Form, yea right’
I just kept praying it was not going to be others….which it was, if you had a medical condition and were rushed to Medical…they just left you there to DIE……
Suwannee, reminds me of SHANKSHAW REDEMPTION….still wake up 80% of the time at 430am, when those GUARDS TORCHED those lights on…….PRISON PTSD, probably, but who really knows?!?!?
Truth
You gave me a good laugh. I remembered an interview done by Morgan Freeman about his experience in the movie. He said “No one ever gets the name of the movie right”. And you just proved that.
Maybe you were being sarcastic but the name of the movie is Shawshank not shankshaw LOL He said one lady saw him on the street and yelled “I loved you in the Shimshaw reduction”.
Now NY jail where financier Jeffrey Epstein,
drug lord Joaquin El Chapo and john Gotti were at, is closing
https://www.aol.com/news/us-closing-troubled-nyc-jail-221529319-121912805.html
WELL, AT LEAST MAXWELL, IS LIVING IN BETTER QUARTERS!
…lights turned on 20 hours a day; hourly checks; monitored canteen; monitored legal visits; 2 showers a week!