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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 944
STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
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F.S. 944.8031
944.8031 Inmate’s family visitation; legislative intent; minimum services provided to visitors; budget requests.—
(1) The Legislature finds that maintaining an inmate’s family and community relationships through enhancing visitor services and programs and increasing the frequency and quality of the visits is an underutilized correctional resource that can improve an inmate’s behavior in the correctional facility and, upon an inmate’s release from a correctional facility, will help to reduce recidivism.
(2) The department shall provide, at a minimum, the following services at designated visiting areas for approved visitors in state correctional facilities:
(a) Information relating to applicable visiting regulations, dress codes, and visiting procedures.
(b) A sheltered area, outside the security perimeter, for visitors waiting before and after visiting inmates.
(c) Food services with food choices which are nutritious and acceptable for children and youth visitors.
(d) Minimal equipment and supplies which assist staff and visitors in managing and occupying the time and meeting the needs of children and youth visitors.
(3) Upon determining any deficiencies and barriers to the effective and efficient operation of the department’s visitation program and services, the secretary shall submit annual budget requests identifying capital improvements, staffing, and programmatic needs necessary to improve the quality and frequency of family visits and the visitation program and services.
History.—s. 13, ch. 99-271.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 944.8031
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BC v. Dept. of Children and Families

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2004-09-23T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 887 So. 2d 1046

Snippet: apparently has concluded to the contrary. See § 944.8031(1), Fla. Stat. (2003) (finding that "maintaining…children as a tool to combat recidivism. Section 944.8031, Florida Statutes, enacted in 1999 to set minimal…correctional facility, will help to reduce recidivism. § 944.8031(1), Fla. Stat. (2003). These legislative findings…parental rights on incarceration alone, and section 944.8031, which recognizes the importance of parent-child