Agency Overview

Mission: To protect the public safety, to ensure the safety of Department personnel, and to provide proper care and supervision of all offenders under our jurisdiction while assisting, as appropriate, their re-entry into society.

Vision: To utilize effective and innovative correctional strategies that make Florida’s Department of Corrections
the best in the world.

Quick Facts

• Inmates who commit state felonies and are sentenced to at least a year and a day are sent to state prison in Florida, and are under the jurisdiction of the Florida Department of Corrections
  
  
• The Florida Department of Corrections houses 100,894 inmates in 146 facilities
  
  
• The Department employs approximately 18,200 Correctional Officers
  
  
• Florida’s recidivism rate is 32.8%, which means one of every three inmates released from a Florida prison returns to prison in Florida within three years (This does not include the number of inmates who return to county jails, federal prisons or prisons in other states)
  
  
• The Department of Corrections houses 7,037 female inmates
  
  
• In Florida there are six Private Prisons housing more than 8,000 inmates
  
  
• The Florida Department of Corrections employs 2,334 Correctional Probation Officers who supervise more than 119,000 active offenders on community supervision at 154 probation offices throughout the state

Goals

• Ensure the safety of the public
  
  
• Ensure the safety of Department of Corrections personnel
  
  
• Provide the appropriate care and supervision of inmates under the Department’s jurisdiction
  
  
• Provide the appropriate supervision to offenders on probation in our communities
  
  
• Ensure inmates and offenders are prepared for successful re-entry into our communities. Our goal is to reduce recidivism from its current level of 32 percent to 20 percent by 2014
  
  
• Cultivate a servant-leadership organizational culture that sustains professionalism and success at all levels of the Department
  
  
• Optimize organizational performance