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Florida should follow U.S. lead, shed private prisons

By Paula Dockery The U.S. Department of Justice announced it was ending its use of private prisons. The agency’s Office […]

By Burl Washington as told to Christie Thompson. This article was published in collaboration with Vice. I wasn’t blind when

A juvenile detention center in Fort Lauderdale is under fire for offering food as a reward for beating up a

BY JULIE K. BROWN Calling Florida prisons “a ticking time bomb,” members of the union representing state corrections officers called

By Roy A. Burges, Guest Editorial I live in Union Correctional Institution, the oldest prison in Florida with 1,043 inmates

June 21, 2007, two guards at a jail in Baltimore assaulted an inmate named Shaidon Blake, a gang leader who

Shortly after Harriet Krzykowski began working at the Dade Correctional Institution, in Florida, an inmate whispered to her, “You know

The Florida Department of Corrections’ attempt to restore normalcy to its troubled prison healthcare system is now tangled in a

Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones is under fire for signing a $268 million, no-bid contract for prison health services