Suwannee Correctional Institution Annex Roster

Suwannee Correctional Institution Annex Overview

The annex is a Florida Department of Corrections state prison facility at 5964 U.S. Highway 90 in Live Oak, listed under the parent institution Suwannee Correctional Institution. The state lists it as an adult male facility with a capacity of 1,346. It holds sentenced state-prison inmates, not county pretrial detainees, so it is searched through the state locator rather than the sheriff's jail roster.

The state lists Warden Jared Cox for the annex, along with the warden's office email and a recruiter contact, and posts hours of 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. The annex shares an address and directions with the main institution but carries distinct programs. The official FDC annex page collects its contacts, capacity, and program list.

An annex is a prison unit attached to a parent institution rather than a stand-alone prison. It runs on its own daily operation while sharing some site infrastructure with Suwannee Correctional Institution. The people held here are still sentenced state inmates under the Florida Department of Corrections, not county detainees, so the lookup, visiting, and contact rules track the state system rather than the county jail.

The FDC page for the Suwannee CI Annex is the official source for its capacity and programs. As a state prison, it is searched with the statewide locator, not the county roster used on the jail inmate records page.

Suwannee CI Annex Capacity and Population

The state lists the annex capacity as 1,346 for an adult male population. It is one of three state prison facilities the county has hosted, part of the large state-prison footprint reported for Suwannee. That state population is counted by the corrections department and is separate from the county jail's daily total.

Together with the parent institution, the annex gives Suwannee a state inmate count that dwarfs its county jail. A Florida Legislature profile reported nearly two thousand state prisoners physically held in county facilities in mid-2020. None of that figure belongs in the county jail's average daily population, which the sheriff and the monthly detention reports track separately. The annex capacity of 1,346 sits alongside the main institution's 1,418, and both are state numbers.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Suwannee CI Annex

Use the Florida Department of Corrections offender locator. The state search takes a last name, first name, or DC number and returns sentenced state inmates. The agency refreshes the population search weekly, with release dates and location changes updated nightly.

1. Open the FDC inmate population search.
2. Search by last name, first name, or the six-character DC number.
3. Confirm the person is housed at the Suwannee CI Annex.
4. Open the record for the sentence, status, and current location.

The wider FDC Corrections Offender Network menu adds release and supervised-population searches. The agency cautions that its data can change and is not guaranteed, so verify a location with the institution when it matters.

Because the annex and the parent institution share an address, a name search may return either unit, so read the facility field on the result carefully. The DC number is the surest way to pin down a specific person, since it is unique to that inmate. If a search comes up empty, the person may not yet have completed reception, may have transferred, or may have been released, in which case the release search or the central records bureau is the next step.

Suwannee CI Annex Address and Contact

The annex shares the main institution's Live Oak address but has its own phone line. Use it to reach the facility and confirm current procedures.

Visiting Someone at Suwannee CI Annex

State prison visiting requires approval and scheduling under statewide corrections rules, unlike the quick video account at a county jail. The annex posts hours of 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern, but the visitor list, approval, and current scheduling are set by the state. Confirm the process and any approval steps with the facility and the state before traveling.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Suwannee CI Annex

The annex follows state prison procedures for mail, phone, and money, which differ from the county jail. Use the inmate's current DC number and the state's contact-an-inmate instructions, and check the FDC deposit path rather than the county commissary vendor.

Reception and Classification

Inmates reach the annex after sentencing, not after a street arrest. They pass through state reception centers, where they are processed, tested, medically evaluated, assessed for program needs, and classified by custody and security risk before assignment. A person transferred from the Suwannee County Jail after sentencing can move into the state system and later appear at the annex.

Classification also decides which annex programs a person can join. The reentry and vocational focus here means an inmate nearing release may be placed at the annex to finish a work-readiness or substance-abuse track. That placement is a state decision reviewed over time, and it can change, so the locator is the only reliable way to confirm where someone is held on a given day.

Programs at Suwannee CI Annex

The annex program list is what most sets it apart from the main institution. It leans into vocational training and reentry, including dorm-based programs that the main unit does not list the same way. The lists below sort the documented programs into groups.

Vocational and reentry tracks are a clear focus at the annex.

• Masonry and Plumbing Technology with Fire Sprinkler Systems Technology.
• Faith and Character Dorm.
• Re-Entry Dorm and Ready to Work.

Academic, library, and treatment programs support the rest of the population.

• Adult Basic Education, GED, Special Education Services, and Title I Services.
• Library and law library access.
• Intensive Outpatient Program, Outpatient Program, and a Gateway Foundation contracted program.

State Records and Population Contacts

Record questions the locator cannot answer go to the state bureaus, not the county sheriff. A population or location question about a sentenced inmate goes to the Bureau of Classification and Central Records, while a release question goes to the Bureau of Admission and Release. The annex itself has a direct line for facility matters.

About Suwannee CI Annex

Directions to the annex match the main institution: east of Live Oak on U.S. 90, about 16 miles west of Lake City, and 2 miles west of Wellborn. Because the annex and the parent prison share a site, a visitor should confirm which unit holds the inmate before traveling, since the two are listed separately even though they sit at the same address. The recruiter contact and warden's office email the state lists are for hiring and administration, not for inmate-record questions, which run through the state locator and the central records bureau.

The annex adds to the large state inmate count Suwannee County hosts for its size. That state population is counted and searched by the Florida Department of Corrections and is separate from the county jail's daily total. Treat the two as different systems with different lookup tools.