Franklin Work Camp Inmate Search

Franklin Work Camp Facility Overview

Franklin Work Camp is a Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) work-camp facility. It is tied to the Franklin Correctional Institution complex in Carrabelle. The state runs it. The Franklin County Sheriff does not. The working address for the complex is 1760 Highway 67 North, Carrabelle, FL 32322, and the phone is 850-697-1100.

The camp holds sentenced state inmates. A work camp is a lower-custody setting where inmates handle work assignments under FDC supervision. People land here only after a court sentences them and the state classifies them. This is not a place where police bring someone right after an arrest. It is part of the state prison system. For the local pretrial side, see the Franklin County Jail instead.

The distinction is more than a label. A county jail holds people who are still moving through the local process. Many are pretrial, which means they have not been convicted yet. Others are serving short county sentences. A state work camp sits at the other end of that timeline. Everyone here has already been sentenced. The case is over, the term is set, and custody has shifted to the state. Because of that, the records, the visiting rules, and the money channels all change. Treating a work-camp inmate like a fresh county booking will send you to the wrong system every time.

Franklin Work Camp Capacity Records

A current official FDC work-camp capacity for this facility was not published in the corrections pages reviewed for this research. So no rated-capacity or current-population figure is shown here. Posting a guessed number would not help you. The Florida Department of Corrections is the right source for any official count, custody level, or housing detail. Call the facility at 850-697-1100 or ask FDC directly. If you need population context for the local jail rather than the state camp, the county figures live on other pages of this site. State counts can shift as inmates transfer between facilities, so a single number would go stale fast even if it were posted.

How to Look Up a Franklin Work Camp Inmate

Use the Florida Department of Corrections offender search, not the county arrest log. The state locator covers people in FDC custody, which is exactly who is held at a work camp. Each FDC inmate has a DC Number. A DC Number is the unique ID the state assigns to a person in its custody. It is the cleanest way to find an exact match. You can also search by name. Open the FDC offender search and work through the steps below.

1. Open the FDC offender search locator.
2. Search by last and first name, or by DC Number if you have it.
3. Confirm the current facility shown matches Franklin Work Camp.
4. Open the profile for offense and sentence details.
5. Check the custody status and the admission date.
6. View the photo if one is posted.

It helps to know how a person ends up here. The path usually runs like this. A local arrest happens first. The booking appears in the county arrest log. The court case then opens in the OCRS court system. A judge sentences the person. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office transports sentenced inmates to the state, 32 of them in 2024 by the sheriff's count. FDC then classifies the inmate and assigns a placement, which can be a work camp. A person held here has a DC Number and a state prison profile. They do not have a county booking record that you would find on the local roster.

Franklin Work Camp Inmate Record Fields

An FDC profile reads differently from a county booking entry. It is built around the state DC Number and the person's sentence, not a fresh arrest charge. The table below lists the fields the offender search commonly shows for a person in state custody. Not every field is filled for every inmate, and some dates appear only when the state has set them. Still, the DC Number and the current facility are the two fields that matter most when you are trying to confirm someone is here.

Franklin Work Camp Address and Contact

You can reach the camp through the complex it shares in Carrabelle. The state runs this line, so questions about custody, classification, and visiting go through the Florida Department of Corrections rather than the county. Use the card below for the working address and phone.

Visiting Someone at Franklin Work Camp

Work-camp visitation is still state prison visitation. It runs under FDC rules, not county jail rules. That means a visit needs FDC approval, and the schedule is set by the state. Visitors usually have to be on an approved list before they arrive. Applying ahead of time matters, because showing up without approval can mean a wasted trip. Check the FDC visitation page for the current process, approval steps, and any ID or dress requirements. The table is a reminder, not a published clock, since the camp's exact hours come from FDC. Hours and rules can also change on short notice, so confirm them close to your visit date.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Franklin Work Camp

Communication here follows FDC statewide rules. Do not use the county jail vendors for a state inmate. Mail must meet the state's writing rules. Money goes through the state funds system. Phone access runs on FDC's approved provider. Each channel has its own state page, and the contact hub ties them together. Use the table below to reach the right rule for each task. Each link goes straight to the state's own page, so the details you read there are the ones that apply to a Franklin Work Camp inmate.

Note: a work-camp inmate uses FDC vendors and policies, so a county commissary or local video service does not apply to someone held here.

Intake and Admission at Franklin Work Camp

Admission to a work camp is not a street-arrest booking. It comes later in the process. After a court sentences a person, the state takes custody. FDC runs the inmate through reception and classification first. Classification reviews the sentence, custody level, and other factors. Only then does the state assign a placement. A work camp is a lower-custody assignment, so an inmate reaches it through that classification step. The county does not decide who comes here. The state does, and the local jail's only role is the transport that hands the inmate to FDC.

This is also why a new arrest will not show up at the work camp. Right after an arrest, a person sits in the county jail, and the booking appears in the local arrest log. Sentencing can take weeks or months. The transport to the state happens only once the case closes. So if you are looking for someone who was just arrested, the work camp is the wrong place to start. Check the county side first, then move to the state locator after the sentence is handed down.

About Franklin Work Camp

There is an honest research gap here. A standalone official FDC profile page for this work camp, with a confirmed capacity, was not located in the pages reviewed. So this page sticks to what is verified. The operator is the Florida Department of Corrections. The working address is in Carrabelle. The custody is state-sentenced, in a work-camp setting tied to Franklin Correctional Institution. Housing-unit names and program lists are not invented here, because no confirmed source backed them. For status alerts, you can register through VINELink Florida for custody-status notification. For the local records side, the jail inmate records guide covers county lookups.