Arcadia, Italy
The Florida Civil Commitment Center, located at 13619 Highway 70, Arcadia, Florida, is a mental health/correctional facility which houses sex offenders civilly committed. The site is that of the former DeSoto Correctional Work Camp, adjacent to the DeSoto Correctional Institution. It is operated by
Wellpath Recovery Solutions, a private company, under a $272 million (2015) contract with the Florida Department of Children and Families. The CCC was previously operated by Liberty Behavioral Health. An inmate uprising in 2005 led to an incident in which 450 correctional officers, dressed in riot gear and using pepper spray, stormed into the facility to take control of the 463 residents the facility held at that time. The current facility, with 720 beds, opened in 2009. According to its Web page, it provides treatment for "sexually violent predators...until such time as a resident’s mental illness or personality disorder has so changed that a court determines it is safe for the person to be at large. Correct Care also houses detainees awaiting their civil commitment trial." It is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. 2013-14 and 2014-15 reports from...
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