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Everglades Correctional Institution
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Everglades Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Rated capacity: 1,788. Reported population: 1,833. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Everglades Correctional Institution (also ECI) is a state-operated prison for men in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, in the state of Florida. It was established in 1995 as a part of a larger push for more beds in Miami-Dade County. In 2022, Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin recorded the album Kingdom Book One at the facility, with 1,300 inmates participating in the recording. The album aimed to spotlight the injustices around mass incarceration in the United States.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,788
Current population
1,833
Occupancy
103%
Year opened
1995
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1995
Region
Florida
Security level
Close
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
The Everglades Correctional Institution experienced severe overcrowding, with inmates crammed into units with many others and sleeping feet from one another. Hallways were crowded during meal times, and the facility faced significant challenges during the coronavirus pandemic, including widespread infection and inadequate protective policies.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
The prison faced a major coronavirus outbreak in 2021, with hundreds of infections reported. Inmates reported ineffective policies for protection against the virus, leading to widespread coughing and requests for medication.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 3/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 103% of design capacity
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
- · Severe-conditions keyword in sources
This facility scores 14. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 12 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project25 Feb 2022
at my sky is full of stars, my heart is full of hope and my future is full of promise. Diego Cadena Bejarano for The Marshall Project As an emerging journalist serving time at Everglades Correctional Institution in Miami, I spend most of my days following leads, conducting interviews and writing down details from the inside that most on the outside can't — or don’t want to — understand. I’ve
- marshall-project30 Jun 2021
crammed in a unit with 63 other men in a Florida prison, crowding into hallways on their way to meals and sleeping feet from one another at night. As the coronavirus ravaged the Everglades Correctional Institution, Johnson was surrounded by the sounds of coughing and requests for Tylenol. And while he thought a lot of the prison’s policies were ineffective at protecting prisoners, he also
Data completeness
84%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Florida — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q16975456)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Everglades Correctional Institution. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/everglades-correctional-institution
"Everglades Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/everglades-correctional-institution.
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