Franklin Correctional Institution Work Camp Records

Franklin Work Camp Release Status

The current FDC institution listing labels Franklin Correctional Institution Work Camp “Temporarily Closed.” A March 2026 PREA audit reports that the camp was closed and staff were transferred to Franklin CI's main unit. Those official statements control the present description. The camp should not be portrayed as an active origin for new releases unless FDC publishes later reopening evidence.

Closure does not erase the records of people who once lived there. Their state custody episodes, prison movements, releases, and any later FDC supervision remain state-system matters. Search by person and DC number rather than assuming the facility still maintains a separate active roster. A historical entry naming the work camp may be valid for its date, but it does not prove current operation or a recent release.

Verify Franklin Work Camp Releases

A former work-camp resident should be traced through FDC's person-based databases. Start with the Inmate Release Information Search for an accomplished or scheduled state-prison release. Use the six-character DC number when available. Otherwise, search the first and last names and test aliases. Match the photo and other public identifiers before accepting the record.

The correct workflow keeps facility movement apart from release:

1. Confirm that the historical record names Franklin Work Camp, Franklin CI, or the former Bay City Work Camp and note its date.
2. Search FDC's release database by DC number or name. Preserve the exact release value and custody history shown.
3. Search the current Inmate Population database. An active record at Franklin CI or another institution means state confinement continued.
4. Run the DC number in the Supervised Population Search to determine whether an FDC supervision record followed prison release.
5. Use Florida VINE as a custody-change check. Ask FDC release records staff to resolve a conflict or obtain formal detail.

FDC says its release information is updated nightly. Population and supervision datasets have their own refresh patterns. A short timing mismatch can occur. If the result is missing, check spelling, prior names, aliases, and the DC number. A no-result in the sheriff's Franklin County Arrest Log is irrelevant because that publication covers local arrests, not the state work camp.

Note: Historic facility names help locate an episode, but the person's DC number is the stronger key across later FDC moves and releases.

Franklin Work Camp Release Records

An FDC release detail can carry the person's DC number, name, custody data, release date or other value, stated residence upon release, aliases, detainers, incarceration history, and prison-offense sections. Read the actual labels. A release field can contain non-date text, and a scheduled event should not be restated as completed. Detainer information can also show that departure from the state system did not necessarily mean freedom from all custody.

The public systems mark different legal and physical states. A person can appear as released and supervised at once. That combination means the incarceration episode ended while community supervision continued. Final discharge from supervision is a later event and should not be inferred from the prison release alone.

For a still-confined person, the active population detail can display a “Current Release Date.” Florida law describes the underlying gain-time calculation as tentative, so the date can change with time already served, gain-time awards or loss, sentence corrections, discipline, new sentences, and mandatory terms. Historic placement at the camp does not freeze that date. For a person who has already left FDC custody, rely on the released-person detail and its actual status instead of an old projected value copied from a population record.

Franklin Work Camp Release Contacts

The research identifies the camp as a Carrabelle satellite component of Franklin CI, but it does not provide a verified separate street address, direct telephone number, or public hours for the closed site. Those details should not be invented or borrowed from the main institution. Use the current FDC institution page for status. Send person-specific release-data questions to the Bureau of Admission and Release and classification questions to Central Records.

FDC's public-records route can be used for broader documentation. Give the DC number, the historic facility name, a useful date range, and the exact record sought. A request might ask for incarceration history, movement history, release date and type, or another releasable record that connects the old work-camp episode to the later FDC status.

Franklin Work Camp Custody Transfers

A move between Franklin Work Camp and Franklin CI's main unit remained within FDC custody. The same is true of movement to another FDC prison. Such a move ends placement at one site but does not end the state sentence or create a community release. Population history and the next institution identify that boundary. Only the release record, read with any supervision and detainer data, supports a statement about leaving the prison population.

The camp's closure produced another kind of movement. The 2026 audit says staff transferred to the main unit, but that administrative fact does not establish an individual prisoner's release. Person-level conclusions must come from person-level records. Likewise, a historic address or institution label cannot establish where someone went after departure.

Satellite component

A site connected to a main correctional institution within the same operating system.

Transfer

Movement between institutions or custodians without a return to the community.

Release

Departure from the prison population, sometimes followed by supervision or another jurisdiction.

Discharge

The later completion of custody or supervision recorded by the responsible agency.

Franklin Work Camp Facility History

FDC's 2017 Franklin CI audit records a specific local transition. Franklin Work Camp opened on August 19, 2013, replacing Bay City Work Camp in Apalachicola, which closed that day. An older record may therefore use “Bay City Work Camp” even though the later state component carried the Franklin name. Treat the name as a historical clue, then confirm the person in FDC's statewide data.

The current record reflects a second transition. FDC's March 2026 Franklin CI audit reports the work camp closed and its staff moved to the main unit. The institution listing uses the more specific status “Temporarily Closed.” Both sources support a closed-current-operations description, while the live listing should be checked for any later change.

This is the work camp's Angle L: Bay City, Franklin Work Camp, and Franklin CI can appear in one custody history without marking three community releases. Dates and FDC movement history reconcile those names. Old Bay City material must not be presented as a current Franklin County detention facility, and current closure must not be projected backward onto years when the work camp operated.

Franklin Work Camp Release Boundaries

Franklin County also contains the sheriff-operated Franklin County Jail. It is a separate custody system. County jail departures are documented through FCSO booking and release records and the Franklin Clerk's criminal docket. State work-camp and Franklin CI releases belong to FDC. Searching one system for the other's event can produce a false no-result.

The Franklin County released-inmate search path shows where county, state, federal, and immigration records diverge. For a historic camp case, the deciding facts are the FDC identifier, event date, movement history, release value, and any later supervision record. For a county-jail booking, use the sheriff and Clerk instead.

Federal or immigration custody is another boundary. No BOP or ICE detention center was verified in Franklin County. If an FDC record identifies a detainer or receiving agency, continue in that agency's locator or records process. Departure from FDC can coincide with entry into another custody system, so the destination remains essential.