Inmate health costs drive up prison budget in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NEWS SERVICE FLORIDA) – Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to fund the Florida Department of Corrections next year at $2.7 […]
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NEWS SERVICE FLORIDA) – Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to fund the Florida Department of Corrections next year at $2.7 […]
On May 15, 2017, after serving 37 years, David Maldonado was released from prison. He had been sentenced to life for a murder he
By David C. Fathi September 3 David C. Fathi is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project.
Prisoners across the country join work stoppages, hunger strikes and commissary boycotts in at least 11 states to protest prison
Photo: Meredity Nierman / WGBH A Massachusetts state prison is expanding the graveyard where it buries inmates who die in custody,
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CNS) — Prison reform groups are celebrating a victory after a proposed rule to cut visitation hours in
As a candidate, Gov. Rick Scott pitched the idea of having private companies provide health care to the state’s prisoners
TALLAHASSEE — Faced with in-person visitations slashed in half and an offer to pay for the privilege, a coalition of
After a ramp up of enforcement that led to thousands of prisoner visitor strip searches beginning last summer, the Florida