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Taylor Correctional Institution Overview

Taylor Correctional Institution is operated by the Florida Department of Corrections at 8501 Hampton Springs Road, Perry, FL 32348-8747. It is an adult male state prison, and the Florida Department of Corrections lists Warden Chris Lane along with a warden's office contact. The institution sits west and southwest of Perry on the Hampton Springs Road campus, well away from the county jail on U.S. Highway 27.

The facility has a rated capacity of 1,301. The Florida Department of Corrections also names two satellite units tied to it, Taylor Annex and Taylor Work Camp, and notes that the work camp is temporarily closed. Because this is a sentenced-population prison, its inmates are not searched on the county jail roster, which covers pre-trial and short-term county custody instead.

Taylor Correctional Institution Capacity and Population

The Florida Department of Corrections publishes a rated capacity of 1,301 for Taylor Correctional Institution. The state prisons inside the county hold a large group overall. A Florida Legislature profile counted 2,239 Department of Corrections inmates physically housed in Taylor County on June 30, 2020, which includes this institution and its Annex, against a county population near 22,436. Those prisoners come from across the state, so the count is not a measure of Taylor County cases.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Taylor Correctional Institution

Use the Florida Department of Corrections offender search, not the county jail roster. The state search covers sentenced prisoners in state custody, and it states that inmate population information and photos are refreshed weekly, while release dates and location changes update nightly. The county roster will not list a person held here.

1. Open the Florida Department of Corrections inmate search.
2. Search by last name and first name, or by the six-character DC number if you have it.
3. Confirm the assigned facility shows Taylor Correctional Institution.
4. Open the record for the photo, sentence information, and current location.

The state offender search form accepts name and DC number searches with alias and photo options.

If the person is not in the state system, they may still be in the county jail before sentencing, which is searched through the county jail inmate records instead.

Taylor Correctional Institution Address and Contact

The institution shares a campus and contact structure with its Annex. Use the main institution numbers below for general and chaplain contact.

Visiting Someone at Taylor Correctional Institution

State prison visiting is more involved than a county video visit. A visitor must first be approved. That means completing the Visitation Application Form DC6-111A, which is required for every visitor age 12 or older, and filling it out completely or risking denial. The application goes to the classification department at the inmate's current institution, and processing takes about 30 days. Once approved, a visitor schedules through the weekly online form, which is open from Monday 5:00 a.m. to Wednesday 5:00 p.m. Eastern. There are no walk-up visits without a scheduling form.

Registration begins at 8:15 a.m., and processing generally stops after 2:00 p.m. unless the duty warden allows it. Visitors 16 and older must show a valid photo ID with a current address, date of birth, and physical description.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Taylor Correctional Institution

State mail rules differ sharply from the county jail. Routine inmate mail goes to a central scanning address in Tampa, not to the prison, and it is scanned and delivered electronically. Legal and privileged mail is the exception and still goes to the institution under the state's legal-mail rules. Only USPS mail is accepted, and nonstandard packaging is refused.

Routine mail is not held more than 72 hours after receipt when it is properly addressed and compliant. Confirm current vendor details with the Department of Corrections before sending mail or money.

Reception and Classification at Taylor Correctional Institution

People do not arrive here straight from a street arrest. A person reaches a state prison after a conviction and a prison sentence, moving out of the county jail and court pipeline into Department of Corrections custody. Reception and classification assign custody level, housing, and programs. From that point, the county jail roster no longer tracks the person, and the state offender search takes over. The Florida Department of Corrections says its database covers state prison and supervision and does not include county jail or county probation records. For that reason, a same-day local arrest will never appear in the state search, even when the person is later sentenced to this prison.

Directions and Visitor Notes for Taylor Correctional Institution

The prison is reached from the Hampton Springs side of Perry, not the U.S. 27 route used for the county jail. The Florida Department of Corrections directions run from Highway 27 to U.S. 98, then west about 3 1/2 miles to County Road 356, then left and south for 6 miles, with the facility on the left. Do not use county jail directions to reach the prison, and plan extra time, since the campus is well outside the center of town.

Approved visitors should arrive in time for the 8:15 a.m. registration on a Saturday or Sunday and bring the required photo identification. Because the state controls entry, dress, and search rules at the gate, confirm what you can bring before you leave home. A visit can be denied if the application is incomplete or the visitor status is not eligible, so check approval and scheduling first.

Inmate Population and Records Questions

For questions the offender search cannot answer, the Florida Department of Corrections directs inmate population inquiries to its Bureau of Classification and Central Records, reachable at (850) 488-9859. Release questions go to the Bureau of Admission and Release at (850) 488-9167. The agency cautions that its public data can change quickly and may not reflect a person's true current location, status, or release date, so a record should be confirmed when timing matters. For custody-status alerts rather than a single search, VINELink can register a person for notifications once a matching Florida record is in the system. None of these state channels cover the county jail, which keeps its own roster and records custodian for pre-trial and short-term local custody.

About Taylor Correctional Institution

Taylor Correctional Institution runs a wide set of programs for its adult male population. The Florida Department of Corrections lists academic programs such as Adult Basic Education, Basic Literacy, ESOL, and GED, along with vocational tracks in carpentry, construction, and plumbing technology. Faith and betterment programs include AA and NA, anger management, cognitive behavioral therapy, a re-entry dorm, substance abuse outpatient and prevention, Thinking for a Change, a veterans program, and wellness education, among many others. Chaplaincy offerings span many faiths, from Catholic Mass and Protestant worship to Islamic Jumah prayer and Jewish and Messianic studies, along with a chapel library and a spiritual advisor program. The institution also lists Taylor Annex and Taylor Work Camp as satellite units, with the work camp temporarily closed and noted only as an inactive satellite reference rather than a separate live facility.

The state visiting page sets the application, scheduling, and weekend visiting rules used here.

The companion Taylor Correctional Institution Annex shares this campus but has its own capacity and facility page, and a person sentenced from the Taylor County Jail moves into this state system after conviction.