Friday afternoon, a simulated jail cell was placed on the University of Miami's campus to raise awareness about the lack of air conditioning and ventilation in Florida's state prisons.

Only about 24% of housing units in state-run prisons have air conditioning, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. It oversees 639 housing units across 143 facilities statewide.

Laurette Philipsen, prison reform advocate and formerly incarcerated. Dec. 3, 2009, is forever ingrained in Philipsen's memory as Day 1 of eight and a half years spent as a state prisoner for ...

Florida State Prison also has Death Watch cells to incarcerate inmates awaiting execution after the Governor signs a death warrant for them. A Death Watch cell is 12 x 7 x 8.5 feet high.

Activists for prisoner rights in Florida think it’s inhumane that a majority of the state's prisons lack air conditioning and air ventilation, which is why they’re encouraging people to sit ...

Welcome to a cell on Florida’s death row, where 368 men and three women spend their lives, ... On the Net, Florida Department of Corrections: www.dc.state.fl.us. More to Read .

James D. Ford, 64, has spent nearly every moment of the last 25 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell on Florida’s Death Row at the Florida State Prison in rural Bradford County.

Williams, who died June 25, was one of two women to die of COVID-19 in prison so far. Florida’s aging prison population, like the state as a whole, is threatened by the highly contagious virus ...

Currently in Florida, executions are either carried out by lethal injection, as with Tanzi, or by electrocution at the state’s prison in Raiford. As of April, 273 Florida inmates are on death ...

The Herald reported in 2015 how, during a cell extraction at Charlotte Correctional Institution, ... former warden at Florida State Prison and current prison consultant Ron McAndrew told the Herald.

The FDC is the state’s largest agency, and the nation’s third-largest state corrections system. It employs more than 25,000 full-time staff, including nearly 21,000 correctional officers.