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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.
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
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
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Everglades Correctional Institution. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/everglades-correctional-institution
Chicago
"Everglades Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/everglades-correctional-institution.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-everglades-correctional-ins,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Everglades Correctional Institution},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/everglades-correctional-institution},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}
