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Graceville Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility Overview

Graceville Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility sits in the small town of Graceville, in the northwest corner of Jackson County. It holds sentenced male prisoners in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC). The thing that sets it apart from the other prisons in the county is its operator. The Florida Department of Corrections labels it a contract facility. A private firm, Management & Training Corporation, Inc. (MTC), runs the prison day to day under a contract with the state. The inmates are still state prisoners, the records are still state records, and the lookup still goes through the state offender search.

People often assume a privately run prison works like a separate system. It does not. A contract prison is built and staffed by a company, but it is bound by FDC rules and contract terms, and the people inside are sentenced to FDC, not to the company. So the search, the visitation approval, the mail handling, and the money deposits all run on Florida Department of Corrections rules. The county jail in Marianna has no part in any of this. This facility does not book new arrests off the street.

The 2024 PREA audit hosted by the Florida Department of Corrections lists custody and security categories at the prison as close, medium, minimum, and community. That range means the prison houses men at several supervision levels under one roof. It is a male institution. None of its population is county pretrial or county-sentence custody.

Graceville Correctional Facility Capacity and Population

The design capacity and population numbers come from the 2024 PREA audit posted by the Florida Department of Corrections, which names the operator and reports the facility figures. That audit lists a design capacity of 1,884 and a current population of 1,863. In that snapshot the prison was not over capacity. These are the most current sourced figures located for this facility. Population at any prison shifts as men transfer in, transfer out, or finish sentences, so treat the count as a point-in-time figure from the audit, not a live number.

The contrast with the local jail is worth keeping in mind. The Jackson County Correctional Facility in Marianna holds a few hundred local detainees. This single contract prison holds nearly two thousand sentenced men. The phrase "Jackson County inmate population" can mean either group, but they are counted in different systems. People physically imprisoned at Graceville are not part of the county jail count.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Graceville

Because this is a state prison, the correct tool is the Florida Department of Corrections offender search, the public Corrections Offender Network. It covers felony offenders sentenced to FDC prison or state supervision. It does not cover county jail inmates, county probation, or other local supervision. Open the FDC offender search and run the steps below to find a man held at this prison.

1. Open the FDC offender search and enter a last name, a first name, or a six-character DC number. At least one field is required.
2. Use prefix matching to your advantage. Typing part of a last name returns names that begin with those letters, which helps when the spelling is uncertain.
3. Open the result and confirm the current location reads Graceville. The detail page shows the facility along with the offenses, custody, and status fields.
4. Review the full profile for the sentence, current and prior offenses, photo where available, and release information, and remember the location can change as men move.

The lead-in image below shows the actual search screen so you know the fields before you start. The FDC offender search opens to a short form with name, DC number, alias, photo, and match-limit controls.

The screen above is the same one used for every Florida state prison, including the contract prison at Graceville, so a single search field set works for the whole state system. If a man has been sentenced and moved into FDC custody, this is where he appears, not on any county jail page.

The search fields and their rules are laid out in the table below. The DC number is the cleanest way to land on one person, since names repeat across a system this large.

Note: The FDC offender search warns that custody location, status, and release dates can change quickly, so a result may not reflect a person's true current spot.

Graceville Facility Address and Contact

The prison is reached by phone for facility-level questions such as visitation processing, classification, and general policy. Staff cannot give legal advice or release decisions. For an inmate's custody status or location, the offender search is faster than a phone call. Use the contact details below to reach the prison itself.

The street address is the physical prison. It is not the address you use for routine inmate mail or for money. Those follow separate state corrections channels covered further down. Confirm any policy with the prison before you make a trip, since contract prisons can adjust local procedures within the state framework.

Visiting Someone at Graceville

Visiting a man in a Florida state prison is not a walk-up event. You must be on his approved visitor list first. The Florida Department of Corrections uses Visitation Application Form DC6-111A. You mail the form to the inmate's current facility classification department or email it to the facility's visitation mailbox. Processing runs about 30 days, so plan ahead and do not show up expecting same-day approval.

Once you are approved, visits are scheduled weekly through the offender-search flow. The scheduling window opens Monday at 5:00 AM EST and closes Wednesday at 5:00 PM EST. There are no walk-ups without a scheduled slot. The table below lays out the approval and scheduling steps that apply to this prison the same as any other FDC institution.

Note: Approval and scheduling rules come from the Florida Department of Corrections, so confirm any prison-specific timing with Graceville before you travel.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Graceville

Mail, phone, and money all run on Florida Department of Corrections rules at this contract prison. Routine inmate mail now uses electronic delivery. The state runs incoming personal mail through a central processing and scanning step rather than handing the paper letter to the inmate. Legal and privileged mail follow separate rules and are not part of that scanning process. Phone service uses ConnectNetwork and AdvancePay. Money goes through Correct Pay, the state's money transfer provider since May 1, 2024. The table sets out each channel.

Only approved visitors may send funds through Correct Pay, so the funds channel is tied to the same approval process as visitation. Do not send money to the prison street address. Deposits route through the Correct Pay system, not the facility front desk.

Reception and Classification at Graceville

A state prison does not book people off the street. There is no street-arrest intake here. A man arrives at Graceville only after a court has convicted and sentenced him to state prison and the Florida Department of Corrections has assigned him to this facility. The process that matters here is reception and classification, not booking.

Classification is the state's decision about where a prisoner is housed and at what custody level. Because Graceville reports close, medium, minimum, and community custody, a man's classification level shapes his housing, his program access, and his work assignment inside the prison. Classification staff also handle the visitor approval paperwork, which is why the DC6-111A form routes through that department. A man's custody level can change over time as the state reviews his record.

For a person arrested in Jackson County, the path runs the other way first. The arrest and booking happen at the county jail in Marianna. If the court sentences that person to state prison, he leaves the county jail and becomes an FDC inmate, and a contract prison like Graceville is one place he may land. The county court case stays with the Jackson County Clerk even after the move. The custody lookup, though, shifts from the county to the state offender search.

About Graceville and Other Custody Systems

Graceville Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility is one of several prisons physically located in Jackson County, which is unusual for a county this size. The Florida Department of Corrections directory lists it among the state institutions in the area, marked as a contract facility because Management & Training Corporation operates it. The word "rehabilitation" in its name points to the program emphasis a contract operator brings under the state framework, but the custody control and the records remain state functions.

It helps to keep the three custody systems straight. Sentenced state prisoners at Graceville and the other Florida prisons in the county are found through the FDC offender search. People newly arrested in Jackson County are handled through the county correctional facility, and the steps for that are on the jail inmate records page. Federal prisoners at the Bureau of Prisons institution in Marianna use the federal locator instead. A short walk through all three systems and the local jail starts from the Jackson County inmate population home page.

Graceville also runs an adjacent lower-custody unit. Men in a work-camp placement nearby are state prisoners too, found through the same FDC offender search; details for that unit sit on the Graceville Work Camp page. Do not confuse either Graceville prison with the county jail in Marianna. They serve different stages of custody and use different lookup tools.