The annual operating cost for Alligator Alcatraz is reportedly $450 million. As Florida intensifies its immigration ...

Michael Bell is to be executed on July 15 for murdering two people outside a Jacksonville bar Dec. 9, 1993, when he went on a rampage with an AK-47.

Escambia's board ratified changes to an agreement with ICE to assist with enforcing laws, after residents spoke out against ...

If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county ...

Nearly 150 laws went into effect in Florida on July 1, including a wide variety of new crimes, harsher penalties, and changes to law enforcement.

Florida law enforcement agencies' cooperation with federal immigration officials is causing concerns among family members and immigrants' rights advocates that people will disappear into county ...

An organization monitoring public policy in Florida is advocating for the state to establish a Criminal Justice Commission to help improve the prison system.

The Escambia County Corrections Department has been awarded the Excelsior Status, the most prestigious achievement in Florida accreditation, for the third consecutive time by the Florida ...

A Florida corrections officer is dead after he was shot in a targeted attack, officials said early Tuesday. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said on social media that its deputies were ...

Florida corrections officials are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the state has violated inmates' rights due to hot conditions at a Miami-Dade County prison.

The lawsuit, which names the Florida Department of Corrections, the secretary of the department and the warden of DCI as defendants, argues that the conditions violate the protections of the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than a century in parts of South Florida, and Dwayne Wilson could hear his 81-year-old fellow inmate gasping for breath and crying ...