The Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested Dylan Kennedy, 28, of Winter Haven, on charges of driving under the influence (DUI) ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida Department of Corrections officer was arrested on Saturday after crashing his vehicle into a ...

An investigation into the former Okaloosa County jail director focused on allegations of conflicts of interest and misuse of ...

Federal courts have rarely upheld claims of medical neglect in US prisons, even when healthcare providers failed to diagnose ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row — including two Florida ... U.S. death row inmates in ...

A former inmate of Auburn Correctional Facility, Taj Williams, pleaded guilty to Assault in the Second Degree in Cayuga County Court on charges stemming from an attack on a corrections officer earlier ...

Flounder the cat disappeared over the weekend, only to be found hiding under his owner Melissa Lynch’s car near a Dollar General. Despite attempts to lure him out with tuna, Flounder’s ...

GAINESVILLE. Fla. — Former Oregon signee Dallas Wilson, a five-star receiver from Tampa, is getting the full-court press from Florida. A day after Wilson watched the Gators beat Tulane in the ...

CINCINNATI — On Friday, a Hamilton County judge found a former Hamilton County corrections officer guilty of sexual battery against a female inmate. The incident took place back in April at the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Saying the “Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons,” Florida corrections ... alleges that the Department of Corrections subjects inmates to “unbearable heat ...

State correctional officials should tighten their requirements for restraining unruly jail inmates and improve ... county jails and for the state Department of Corrections that sets many of ...

TALLAHASSEE - Saying the "Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons," Florida corrections ... lawsuit alleges that the Department of Corrections subjects inmates to "unbearable heat ...