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Columbia Correctional Institution (Florida)
The Columbia Correctional Institution is a state prison for men located in Lake City, Columbia County, Florida. The facility first opened in 1992, has a mix of security levels including community, minimum, medium, and close, and has a capacity of 1427 inmates. The Columbia Annex opened in October 2004 and holds another 1,566 inmates at the same security levels. Both prisons are near the Lake City Correctional Facility, a privately run prison that also holds state inmates. History In March 2012 a Columbia correctional officer named Sgt. Ruben Thomas was stabbed to death by an inmate. In April 2016 a correctional officer received stab wounds from a prisoner, and the next morning a schizophrenic inmate being held in protective custody was found dead. In 2016 Florida state representative David Richardson came to tour the prison, visiting initially on November 23 of that year. Inmates personally made numerous complaints to him about poor facilities, and Richardson described the ...
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Lake City, Florida
Lake City is a city in northern Florida. It is the county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 12,329. It is the principal city of the Lake City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is composed of Columbia County, and had a 2010 population of 67,531. Lake City is 60 miles west of Jacksonville. Lake City began as the town of Alligator in 1821 near the Seminole settlement known as Alligator Village. Alligator became the seat of Columbia County in 1832 when it was formed from Duval and Alachua counties. In 1858 Alligator was incorporated and renamed Lake City. The largest American Civil War battle in Florida took place near here in the Battle of Olustee in 1864; the Confederates won. In 1884 the Florida Agricultural College was established in Lake City as a land grant college; it was relocated to Gainesville in 1905 to form part of the University of Florida. The city's sesquicentennial was held in 2009. Lake City is kn ...
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Florida Department Of Corrections
The Florida Department of Corrections operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in Florida's capital of Tallahassee. The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the United States. It is the largest agency administered by the State of Florida, with a budget of $2.4 billion, approximately 80,000 inmates incarcerated and another 115,000+ offenders on some type of community supervision. The Florida Department of Corrections has 143 facilities statewide, including 43 major institutions, 33 work camps, 15 Annexes, 20 work release centers and 6 road prisons/forestry camps. It has more than 23,000 employees, about three-quarters of whom are either sworn certified corrections officers or sworn certified probation officers. Florida Department of Corrections has K9 units statewide that are frequently utilized for tracking escapees and, in cases of small or rural law enforcement agencies, criminals who have fled ...
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Columbia County, Florida
Columbia County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 69,698, up from 67,531 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is Lake City. Columbia County comprises the Lake City, FL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gainesville-Lake City, FL Combined Statistical Area. Osceola National Forest is partially in Columbia County. History After Florida became a territory of the United States in 1821, pioneer and immigrant settlers from the United States formed their own settlement adjacent to a Seminole village called Alligator Village, and called it Alligator. Following the 1823 Treaty of Moultrie Creek, the residents of Alligator village relocated to the banks of Peace Creek in the newly established Seminole reservation, leaving Alligator Town on its own. When Columbia County was formed in 1832 from Duval and Alachua counties, Alligator Town was designated as the seat of the county go ...
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Lake City Correctional Facility
Lake City Correctional Facility is a private state prison for male youthful offenders ages 18 - 24, located in Lake City, Columbia County, Florida. It's been operated since 1997 by CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), under contract with the Florida Department of Corrections The Florida Department of Corrections operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in Florida's capital of Tallahassee. The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the .... This facility was opened in 1997 and has a maximum capacity of 894 prisoners. The facility is close to two Florida state prisons, the Columbia Correctional Institution and its Annex. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lake City Correctional Facility 1997 establishments in Florida Buildings and structures in Columbia County, Florida CoreCivic Prisons in Florida ...
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Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a List of communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, city in western Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Greater Downtown Miami, Downtown Miami.Contact Us
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A&E (TV Network)
A&E is an American basic cable network, the flagship television property of A&E Networks. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries, dramas, and educational entertainment. Today, the network deals primarily in non-fiction programming, including reality docusoaps, true crime, documentaries, and miniseries. As of July 2015, A&E is available to approximately 95,968,000 pay television households (82.4% of households with television) in the United States. The American version of the channel is being distributed in Canada while international versions were launched for Australia, Latin America, and Europe. History Launch A&E launched on February 1, 1984, initially available to 9.3 million cable television homes in the U.S. and Canada. The network is a result of the 1984 merger of Hearst/ABC's Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS) and (pre–General Electric merger) RCA-owned The Entertainment Chan ...
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Killer Kids
''Killer Kids'' is a Canadian documentary series. It first premiered in 2011 on ''The Biography Channel FYI (stylized as fyi,) is an American basic cable channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications (each owns 50%). The network features lifestyle pr ...'' and aired for an additional three seasons on '' LMN'' before cancellation. Episodes Season 1 Season 2 (LMN) Season 3 (LMN) Season 4 (LMN) References External links * {{IMDb title, id=2189874 2010s American documentary television series 2010s Canadian documentary television series True crime television series ...
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Southwood Middle School
Southwood Middle School Center for the Arts, more commonly known as Southwood Middle School, is a public secondary school located on 16301 Southwest 80th Avenue in Palmetto Bay, Florida. Its principal is Raul Garcia. The mascot for the school is the SuperStar, a cartoonish star who wears a top hat and carries a cane. History The school was formerly located in the census-designated place of Cutler, Florida, Cutler until the incorporation of Palmetto Bay on September 10, 2002. Southwood received national attention when, on February 3, 2004, 14-year-old Jaime Rodrigo Gough, an eighth-grader was stabbed to death on campus by 14-year-old Michael Hernandez. Hernandez was tried as an adult, and sentenced to life in prison without parole and his sentence was upheld in a 2018 resentencing hearing. In April 2021, Hernandez collapsed at the Columbia Correctional Institution (Florida), Columbia Correctional Institution and died at the age of 31. Southwood now celebrates "Peace Week" during ...
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Willie James Hodges
Willie James Hodges (born June 19, 1960) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer who has been convicted of a 2001 murder in Florida, to which he has been linked to via DNA evidence, and remains the prime suspect in two additional murders in Alabama and Ohio with which he has never been charged. Originally sentenced to death for the Florida conviction, the sentence was later overturned following ''Hurst v. Florida'' and he was subsequently resentenced to life imprisonment. Murders Hodges' first suspected murder is that of 66-year-old Winnie Johnson, who was shot to death during a burglary of her home in Sumter County, Alabama on November 26, 2001. On December 19, Hodges broke into a home in Pensacola, Florida, occupied by 58-year-old Patricia Belanger. After encountering her, he proceeded to beat her with a claw hammer on the head and stab her once in the neck with a steak knife, which immediately killed her. Upon ransacking the house, Hodges left through the windo ...
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Randy Schoenwetter
Randy Lamar Ingram Schoenwetter (born October 27, 1981) is an American prisoner convicted of the August 12, 2000, murder of Ronald Friskey (aged 53) and his daughter Virginia (aged 11), and the attempted murder of Haesun Friskey. Apprehended shortly after the murders, Schoenwetter confessed and pleaded guilty to all charges. He was sentenced to death on December 5, 2003. At the time of his sentencing, he became the youngest person on death row. His death sentence was overturned in 2021 and he was resentenced to life. Killings On August 12, 2000, Randy Schoenwetter rode his bicycle from the apartment he shared with his mother in Titusville, Florida, to the restaurant where he worked. A short time later, he left the restaurant and headed to the home of his friend, Chad Friskey, with the intent to rape one of Friskey's sisters. Around 5:00 am, Schoenwetter entered the house through a sliding glass door and armed himself with a 12-inch knife from the kitchen. Finding 16-year-ol ...
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Union Correctional Institution
The Union Correctional Institution, formerly referred to as Florida State Prison, Raiford Prison and State Prison Farm is a Florida Department of Corrections state prison located in unincorporated Union County, Florida, near Raiford. First opened in 1913, the prison expanded and restructured many times. State Prison Farm was well known as one of the last prisons in the United States to abolish the practice of convict leasing in 1923. In 1955 the first buildings of the East Unit were established, across the Bradford county line to the south. In July 1972, the East Unit became the new Florida State Prison, and the old prison was redesignated as Union Correctional Facility. As of 2016, Union remains one of the largest prisons in the Florida system. It houses a maximum capacity of 2,172 adult male prisoners at a range of security levels (Maximum, Close, Medium, Minimum, and Community). History State Prison Farm Florida's largest and oldest correctional institution was establ ...
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Prisons In Florida
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow or remand center, is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed. Prisons can also be used as a tool of political repression by authoritarian regimes. Their perceived opponents may be ...
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