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Graceville Correctional Facility

private state prison in Graceville, Florida

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ28446326 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Graceville Correctional Facility is a private state prison for men located in Graceville, Jackson County, Florida, which has been operated since 2007 by CCA, GEO, and MTC under contract with the Florida Department of Corrections.

This facility was opened in 2007 and has a maximum capacity of 1884 prisoners housed at various security levels.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Graceville Correctional Facility” as private state prison in Graceville, Florida. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1884—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. The account is most persuasive where Graceville, Correctional and Facility can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as private state prison in Graceville, Florida. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28446326. Authority coordinates are 30.944, -85.489. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 1884.

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This entry incorporates text from “Graceville Correctional Facility” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.