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Florida leads the nation when it comes to increasingly long prison sentences, charging minors as adults, releasing inmates with no […]

LAKE CITY — Mark Joiner was roused from his cell earlier than usual on June 24, 2012. He was handed

The Department of Corrections is proposing that all unattended inmate deaths and incidents involving serious injury of inmates be chiefly

Six years ago on June 25, Donna Fitzgerald, a 50-year-old corrections officer at Daytona Beach’s Tomoka Correctional Institution, was stabbed

A killing, then threats and a coverup. That’s what three former inmates at Dade Correctional Institution independently claim happened on and after June 23, 2012, when Darren Rainey, a 50-year-old, mentally-ill prisoner, was allegedly locked in a shower by corrections officers as punishment. He was left there for as long as two hours, purportedly howling for mercy as scalding water blasted his body.

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has released a major new report — Collateral Damage: America’s Failure to

WASHINGTON — Republican governors in seven states — Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, Texas and Utah — are either ignoring

Calling the behavior of a Davie condominium association “absurd” and “unreasonable,” a federal judge has ordered a Davie condominium to

HOUSTON — The kitchen of the detention center here was bustling as a dozen immigrants boiled beans and grilled hot