The Gulf Correctional Institution is a state prison for men located in Wewahitchka,

Gulf County, Florida Gulf County is a County (United States), county located in the Florida Panhandle, panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 14,192. Its county seat is Port St. Joe, Florida, Po ...

, owned and operated by the

Florida Department of Corrections The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is the government agency responsible for operating state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in the state capital of Tallahassee. The Florida Department of Corrections oper ...

. With a mix of security levels including minimum, medium, and close, this facility was opened in 1992 and has a maximum capacity of 1568 prisoners. The Gulf Annex opened in May 1999. It holds another 1,398 inmates at the same security levels. It was rendered temporarily uninhabitable by

Hurricane Michael Hurricane Michael was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992. It was the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make ...

in October of 2018

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Prisons in Florida Buildings and structures in Gulf County, Florida 1992 establishments in Florida Government buildings completed in 1992 Men's prisons {{GulfCountyFL-geo-stub