[3] Union CI is a maximum security prison and is home to part of Florida's Death Row.

The death chamber is located at nearby Florida State Prison (FSP) in Bradford County.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 16,147 people, 4,008 households, and 2,873 families residing in the county.

19.50% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

This extremely skewed gender distribution is the result of the county's male prison population.

The county suffers a death rate of about 1600 per 100,000 residents, the highest in the nation.

[17] FDOC also maintains the Union Correctional Institution in an unincorporated area in the county.

[18] Union Correctional Institution houses one of two death rows for men in Florida.

[19] About a third of the county's population is imprisoned, compared to a statewide figure of one-half percent.