FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — He will be a number.
All inmates at the Florida Department of Corrections get one — murderers, burglars, car thieves, kidnappers, rapists. All 82,000 inmates in Florida prisons get assigned a six-digit identification number.
When he leaves Fort Lauderdale’s main jail and enters the Florida State Prison system after sentencing next week, confessed Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz will cease to be Broward County’s most notorious inmate. He will not join the 302 inmates on death row, with their private cells, personal televisions and no work requirements.
