The Jail System
Florida has 67 jails in 67 counties. The jail population in 2022 was 54,557.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2022, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the State of Florida correctional authorities was 84,678 located in 121 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. Florida operated facilities had a staff of 23,380 employees and a budget of $2,679,411,586.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2022, Florida community corrections population was 184,520 under probation and 3,890 under parole.
Methodology
The National Institute of Corrections depends on publicly available information to provide the information on this page.
The statistics for budgets, employee positions, county numbers, and state prison facilities data come from state departments of corrections, other state reports and state agencies. If data is missing for a state, then we were unable to find that information.
The data on prison population come from the Prisoners in 2022 report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report includes the count of prisoners in the unified systems of Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Violent and property crime rates are provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The number of counties per state comes from the United States Census Bureau.
- County Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020-2023
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer
- Florida Department of Corrections Annual Report 2021-2022
- How Much Do States Spend on Prisoners?
- Prisoners in 2022 – Statistical Tables
- Probation and Parole in the United States, 2022
- Vera Incarceration Trends Florida