Gov. Ron DeSantis is requesting the Legislature provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Florida Department of ...

Saying existing law does not provide adequate and independent oversight of the Florida’s Department of Corrections (FDC), two ...

Last month, Brad Keith Sigmon became the first inmate in South Carolina to be executed by firing squad in modern history and the first in the U.S. since 2010. Since 1977, only three other inmates have ...

The bill says the legislation is necessary “to create an independent entity as a unit of the legislative branch of state ...

The lawsuit alleges that heat contributed to the deaths of four people at the Dade Correctional Institution. A prisoner works on the lawn at the Dade Correctional Institution on July 10, 2014, in ...

Florida corrections officials are seeking to dismiss a potential class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions due to extreme heat at Dade Correctional Institution, a Miami-Dade County ...

More than a month after Florida opened "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, the state and ICE signed an updated agreement spelling out how state corrections officials should handle federal ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than a century in parts of South Florida, and Dwayne Wilson could hear his 81-year-old fellow inmate gasping for breath and crying out for ...