The Annex has a maximum general population of 1,500 and another 150 special housing beds for close management, death row, medical isolation, and confinement.

Lowell Correctional Institution houses female offenders at all security levels, including juveniles age 14 to 18 and adults.

Jones (Correctional Alternative Military Program), is a boot camp for young offenders.

[citation needed] In April 1956, the first all female prison was opened in Lowell, as Florida Correctional Institution.

Jones was opened as the only "boot camp"- style program for young female offenders in Florida.

[2] At some point the Broward Correctional Institution housed female death row inmates.

In the Fall of 2009, Phase Two began and several mission changes were put into effect, elderly inmates were moved to climate controlled dormitories at the Lowell Correctional Institution Annex and the primary dormitory where wheelchair-using inmates were housed was demolished to make way for a new food service and canteen buildings.

In 2009 the Department of Corrections completed a climate-controlled facility in South Florida to house long term pregnant inmates.

Inmates in the final term of their pregnancy will remain housed at Lowell Correctional Institution.

There are an additional (2) open bay dorms and (2) secure-cell housing units planned to begin in the final phase of the renovations.

Also scheduled to be opened at the Lowell Reception Center is a Crisis Care/Transitional Care Unit that will house inmates that require inpatient mental health treatment.

[8] In 2015 the Miami Herald announced it was going to publish an investigative series, "Beyond Punishment," on Lowell CI, alleging misconduct.

In August 2019, 52-year-old Cheryl Weimar was viciously beaten by correctional officers in an attack that left her a quadriplegic.

Captain Keith Mitchell Turner was later terminated from employment after being arrested on charges related to molesting two children, but not for his role in the attack.

[10] In July 2005, 3,100 prisoners and 800 staff members were tested at Lowell Correction Institution for tuberculosis.