According to one mother who spoke with her son who is in the jail, inmates screamed out: "We're going to die back here. There ...

Florida Policy Institute says lawmakers need to implement findings from statewide report and fix repairs in Florida prisons.

Adam Hasner, who represented the Boca Raton area in the state House of Representatives from 2002 to 2010, rising to the chamber’s No. 2 leadership post, was chosen unanimously f ...

If budgets are a statement of priorities, Gov. Ron DeSantis in his seventh proposed budget makes clear where his lie. His ...

Florida has the country's third-largest state prison system, with more than 87,000 people incarcerated at the end of September. Of those, 181 have been identified by the department as transgender ...

The five states with the lowest recidivism rates were in the Southern U.S., according to the analysis. South Carolina had the ...

DeSantis issued an initial executive order in September 2022 to activate National Guard members due to staffing shortages at ...

A 15-year-old Florida boy has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the beating and rape of a 91-year-old woman. Jesse Stone, 14 years old at the time of the incident, also will receive 30 years of ...

Officials said a Florida man recently was sentenced to life in prison following the murder of a 31-year-old man.

Earlier this fall, Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state’s prisons to submit to breast exams. As part of a new policy for people with gender dysphoria, prison medical staff ...