Maxwell gave a hard time to both the staff and the prisoners during her stay at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, according to one of her co-inmates.

A Miami-Dade corrections officer is facing criminal charges nearly three years after prosecutors say he beat an inmate inside a county jail.

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.

Jacksonville hires CGL to guide one-year search for site to build new county jail. Town halls will let public voice opinions ...

A federal jury has convicted a 24-year-old inmate already serving a life sentence for his role in the violent kidnapping and robbery of a rideshare driver.

Tommy Zeigler’s long, meandering fight to prove his innocence is likely over. A Florida circuit judge has declined to overturn Zeigler’s 50-year-old murder conviction after a yearslong push to examine ...

A deadly crash on Florida’s Turnpike that killed three people in St. Lucie County is now at the center of a national debate.

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and ...

Held Without Help: Our investigation uncovered hundreds of mentally ill Florida inmates who wait months in jail despite a 15-day transfer law. Hillary Clinton tells Congress she had ‘no relationship’ ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, Florida.

Florida has executed its second inmate of the year even as a Supreme Court justice questioned the state's “deeply troubling" record on lethal injections and how it "shrouds its executions in secrecy." ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A new report by the Orange County Corrections Department Research Unit showcasing the county facility's “Average Daily Population with ICE Detainers” found that the number of ...