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Martin Work Camp Overview

Martin Work Camp is operated by the Florida Department of Corrections and is tied to Martin Correctional Institution near Indiantown. It holds sentenced state inmates assigned to work-camp and work-program custody. The 2021 PREA audit for the Martin C.I. complex classifies the Work Camp at Security Level 3, with custody levels of Medium, Minimum, and Community. That places it a step below the main prison's high-security Main Unit, which fits its role housing inmates cleared for work assignments.

This is a state facility, not a county jail. It does not hold people arrested locally and waiting on a first court date, and it is not searched through the Martin County jail roster. Anyone arrested in the county and held before trial would be at the county jail in Stuart, while the work camp holds people already sentenced to the state system.

What a Florida Work Camp Is

A work camp is a lower-security part of the state prison system, attached to a parent institution. Inmates housed at a work camp are sentenced state prisoners who have been cleared for work assignments, which is why the security level sits below the high-security main prison. The Martin Work Camp operates this way as part of the Martin C.I. complex.

The setting changes the daily routine more than the legal status. The people here are still serving Department of Corrections sentences, still searched through the state locator, and still under state visitation and mail rules. What sets a work camp apart is the work-program focus and the Medium, Minimum, and Community custody levels the 2021 audit assigned to it, rather than the Close custody found on the main prison's high-security unit.

Who Is Held at Martin Work Camp

Everyone at the work camp is a sentenced Florida state inmate, not a local arrestee. There are no pre-trial detainees here and no people held overnight after a county arrest, since those stay at the county jail in Stuart. The work camp population is drawn from inmates whose custody level and record qualify them for work-program housing.

That single fact decides where to search. A family looking for someone just arrested in Martin County should use the county roster, while a family tracking a sentenced relative at the work camp uses the state locator. Confusing the two is the most common reason a search fails, and it is easy to avoid once the custody type is clear.

Martin Work Camp Capacity and Population

The Florida Department of Corrections does not publish a separate population table for the Work Camp in the materials reviewed. The 2021 PREA audit treats it as part of the wider Martin C.I. complex, whose rated capacity is listed as 2,297 across all components. Because the work camp figures are folded into that complex total, there is no standalone capacity or daily count to report for the camp alone, and inventing one would be misleading. For a current head count, the statewide locator reflects who is housed at the work camp at any given time.

Work Camp vs. the Main Unit at Martin C.I.

The Work Camp and the main prison sit on the same Indiantown complex but hold different custody levels. The 2021 PREA audit puts the Main Unit at Security Level 6 and the Work Camp at Security Level 3, which shapes who is housed where. The table lays out the contrast.

Both are searched through the same state locator, so a name check uses the Department of Corrections tool either way, with the result showing which unit holds the person.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Martin Work Camp

The work camp is searched through the Florida Department of Corrections inmate population search, the same statewide tool that covers every state prison. The locator covers felony offenders sentenced to the Department of Corrections and excludes county jail and county supervision.

The offender network menu explains how often each database updates, with the inmate population refreshed weekly and release and location changes updated nightly.

1. Open the Florida Department of Corrections inmate population search.
2. Search by last and first name, or by the six-character DC number.
3. Confirm the person is housed at the Martin Work Camp on the result.
4. Open the detail page for the sentence, offenses, and custody level.

Martin Work Camp Address and Contact

The work camp shares the Indiantown location of the main institution and has its own facility phone. Mail and visiting follow Department of Corrections procedures.

Visiting Someone at Martin Work Camp

Visiting a state work camp follows Department of Corrections rules, not county jail hours. A visitor generally must be approved and on the inmate's visitor list, and the schedule is set by FDC procedure. The framework below reflects how state visitation works; confirm the current days and times with the facility and the FDC visiting information page.

Work assignments can affect when an inmate is available, so confirm the visit before traveling.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Martin Work Camp

Reaching an inmate at the work camp goes through Department of Corrections systems. The FDC Contact an Inmate page sets the mail rules, the phone process, and the money-deposit steps, and those statewide procedures apply at the work camp as at any state prison.

Rules and Records for Martin Work Camp

As a state facility, the work camp runs under Florida corrections law rather than county jail rules, and its records come from the state, not the Sheriff. The state correctional system is governed by Florida statute, with administrative rule chapters covering classification, security, and visitation across every Department of Corrections facility, the work camp included.

Florida Statutes Chapter 944 sets out the state prison system, while Chapters 33-601, 33-602, and 33-210 of the administrative code carry the classification, security, and visitation rules. Public records for a state inmate go through the Department of Corrections rather than the county. The state locator refreshes its inmate population weekly, with release dates and location changes updated nightly, so a transfer to or from the work camp shows after the next update rather than instantly.

How Inmates Arrive at Martin Work Camp

No one is booked into a work camp directly from an arrest. An inmate reaches the work camp only after a conviction, a sentence to the Department of Corrections, and a classification that clears them for work-camp custody at Security Level 3. Many transfer in from a higher-security unit as their custody level drops. Someone sentenced from a Martin County case would pass through the county jail and state reception first, which is why the county roster and the state locator rarely show the same person at the same time. The county side of that path is covered on the jail inmate records page.

About Martin Work Camp

The Work Camp operates as part of the Martin C.I. complex, so it shares the institution's location and much of its oversight while running its own work-program custody. The 2021 PREA audit folds the work camp into the complex it reviewed, which is why the camp's capacity and population are reported through the complex rather than on their own. For sentenced inmates, the work camp reflects a lower custody level and a daily routine built around work assignments, a contrast with the higher-security Main Unit at Martin Correctional Institution. Because the camp's numbers are reported through the wider complex, the clearest count for any single inmate is always the live state locator rather than a published camp total.