Personnel
Almost Three of Every Four DC Employees is a Correctional Officer or Correctional Probation Officer
- On June 30, 2003, the Florida Department of Corrections had 25,126 employees including 18,650 or 74.2% in the Correctional or Correctional Probation Officer series.
- The average employee is 41 years old and has been with the agency for eight years.
- Of the 16,039 officers within the Department in the Correctional Officer series 11,349 are classified as correctional officers (70.8%) and 3,793 are correctional officer sergeants (23.6%). Lieutenants make up 2.7% (432) of the CO series, while captains comprise 1.7% (270).
- Majors, colonels, CO Inspectors and CO Senior Inspectors comprise only 1.2% (195) of the entire CO series.
- The racial breakdown of those in the CO series is 68.5% white, 25.9% black, and 5.6% other.
- Most (69.2%) of the CO’s are male.
- In the correctional probation officer series 49.6% are female and 50.4% are male.
- The racial breakdown of the 2,611 officers in the CPO series is 60.3% white, 32.3% black and 7.5% other.
Staff by Position
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