The Columbia Penitentiary is a state prison for men located in Lake City, Columbia County, Florida. The facility was first opened in 1992, has a mixed level of security including community, minimum, medium and close, and has a capacity of 1427 detainees.
The Columbia Annex opened in October 2004 and detained 1,566 other inmates at the same level of security. Both prisons are near Lake City Penitentiary, a privately run prison that also houses state inmates.
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History
In March 2012 a Columbia correctional officer named Sgt. Ruben Thomas was stabbed to death by an inmate. In April 2016 a prison officer received a stab wound from a prisoner, and the next morning a schizophrenic inmate held in detention was found dead.
In 2016, Florida state representative David Richardson came to visit the prison, visiting initially on November 23 of that year. The inmate personally made many complaints to him about the poor facilities, and Richardson described the facility as "unfit for human habitation".
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Notable Characters
- Jonathan Silva - Found guilty of first-degree murder for the murder of his friend, Jerry Lee Alley. This story is profiled on A & amp; E's Killer Kids .
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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