officials say Florida Department of Corrections officials are looking for a prison inmate who escaped a work detail in North Florida. Read full article: Thousands of Florida prisoners evacuated as ...

Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration is requesting $8.2 million in state funds to continue the deployment of Florida National Guard members at state prisons through the end of the fiscal year on June ...

The lawsuit, which names the Florida Department of Corrections, the secretary of the department and the warden of DCI as defendants, argues that the conditions violate the protections of the ...

Last fiscal year, 29 students graduated from the GED program, with 324 students enrolled in the program and 179 tests ...

The Marshall Project examines new restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons, from confiscating undergarments to compelling trans people to cut their hair.

This story was published in partnership with the Tampa Bay Times. The Florida Department of Corrections has been locking incarcerated people in shower stalls, often for hours at a time ...

Her proposal would reduce the minimum sentence that a defendant must serve in Florida prisons from 85% of its original length ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld the death sentence of a man who murdered a 13-year-old girl in 2008 in a Panama City motel room.

12 inmates from Wakulla Correctional Institution officially graduated from Persevere, a nonprofit program in seven different states that piloted last year in the Florida Department of Corrections.

Documents show inmates have complained that officers from the Florida Department of Corrections spit in their faces, threaten to slam them into concrete and call them whores, bitches and porch ...

An army veteran, and a former corrections sergeant are the two newest members of the Cocoa Police Department’s Code Enforcement Division. [...] ...