Space is running out at the Sarasota County Jail, with it already being the second-most overcrowded jail in Florida. The Sarasota County Sheriff has been calling for a solution for years, but it's now ...

With the impeding retirement of Marion County Sheriff's Maj. Clint Bowen as head of the jail, Sheriff Billy Woods has ...

Local officials briefed the Sarasota County Commission that a new jail facility could cost $700 million, as inmate ...

A legislative budget panel has approved $8.2 million in funding to continue the deployment of Florida National Guard members ...

A staff representative at the Lake Butler facility said at the time ... according to the Florida Department of Corrections website. The prison offers academic, vocational, college, chaplaincy ...

I started my career with the Florida Department of Corrections in 1997 ... My only plan is to run a safe, clean and humane facility that the taxpayers can be proud of. I have always provided ...

That same day, at Florida Department of Corrections facilities across the state, transgender inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria were rounded up and informed that FDC policy had been changed, “up ...

Singer and songwriter Sean Feucht made a stop at the South Bay Correctional Facility in South Florida to play some music with the prisoners.

Prisons across the U.S. are experiencing critical staffing shortages and a new study says that the ... [+] prison complex may never recover ... so changes are coming. Even before the COVID-19 ...

Aiden Fucci, who stabbed to death his 13-year-old friend in 2021 in St. Johns County, has been transferred from Suwannee Correctional Institute.

The Florida Department of Corrections confirmed Fucci ... A staff representative at the Lake Butler facility said Fucci's transfer is to a new program and not medical-related, but she could ...

At least three prisons have a 50% vacancy rate, with some so short-staffed that they have been incapable of complying with policies on safety, medical treatment and solitary confinement.