Florida Department of Corrections

The 2018 Comprehensive Correctional Master Plan for the Florida Department of Corrections outlines a roadmap to project future needs and ensure safe, adequate accommodations for inmate populations. The plan is guided by goals of talent development, comprehensive inmate/offender programs, transparent communications, and a healthy environment. It aims to completely and effectively administer justice, provide opportunities for inmate self-improvement and reintegration, protect public safety, and maintain a humane correctional system, ultimately aspiring to inspire success and foster reduced victimization and safer communities.

This strategic plan outlines the Florida Department of Corrections' direction for 2021-2024, focusing on recovery from a systemic crisis and setting a path for future excellence. The plan is built upon four major efforts: providing world-class corrections professionals through recruitment and retention; improving the security, safety, health, and welfare of inmates by reducing violence, addiction, and idleness; protecting communities and supporting restoration by deterring future crime and fostering rehabilitation; and upgrading mission support and infrastructure. The overarching vision is to establish a state corrections system that serves as a nationwide benchmark for effective and efficient correctional and probation services, inspiring success by transforming one life at a time.

This Comprehensive Correctional Master Plan for the Florida Department of Corrections outlines a five-year strategy to project and meet the needs of the state correctional system, ensuring safe and adequate accommodations for inmates and facilitating their successful reintegration into society. The plan is guided by a vision of inspiring success and a mission to provide a continuum of services that reduce victimization and create safer communities. Strategic priorities encompass enhancing security and institutional operations, delivering comprehensive health services, implementing rehabilitative and educational programs (such as Project Continuum, Spectrum, Glacier Project, and Compass 100), strengthening community corrections and reintegration initiatives, and optimizing human resources and facility management through a detailed five-year capital outlay plan.

This strategic plan outlines the direction for the Florida Department of Corrections for a three-year period, aiming to change lives to ensure a safer Florida. The plan focuses on five key goals: providing for the care, custody, and management of inmates while ensuring public and staff safety; reducing victimization by preparing inmates for successful re-entry; enhancing public safety through effective supervision of offenders in the community; optimizing organizational performance; and ensuring effective leadership at all levels of the Department. It emphasizes a vision of promoting public, staff, and offender safety, offering re-entry opportunities, and leveraging partnerships to improve the quality of life in Florida.

The 2018-2022 Strategic Plan for the Florida Department of Corrections focuses on talent development, effective communication, inmate and offender programs, and environmental improvements. Key priorities include recruiting and retaining a professionally trained workforce, enhancing internal and external communications, assessing and classifying inmates based on their needs and risks, optimizing organizational performance, and improving the physical infrastructure of agency facilities. The plan aims to ensure safety, accountability, and fairness while promoting innovation to reduce victimization, create safer communities, and emphasize the value of life.