A correctional officer is now on the other side of the bars after she was accused of sexually interacting with an inmate at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit.

A new state law mandates increased cooperation between state and local law enforcement with ICE. In March, Mayor Demings signed a 287 (g) Warrant Service Officer agreement, which granted Orange County ...

Two Polk County jailers are recovering after authorities said they were stabbed by an inmate Saturday afternoon.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed nearly $600 million from the state budget, impacting some Polk County projects. Haines City's emergency operations center, fire facility, and municipal annex ...

A wanted Florida man has been arrested after a series of social media posts taunting the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Grady Judd for not being able to catch him.

Florida Sheriff Grady Judd ready to support the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, but cites lack of detention capacity and calls for federal action.

COLUMBUS - The former partner of Polk County Sheriff Timothy Wright alleges that he assaulted her husband outside her home May 13. District Court Judge Corey MacKinnon denied a request, filed May 14 ...

COLUMBUS - The former partner of Polk County Sheriff Timothy Wright alleges that he assaulted her husband outside her home May 13. District Court Judge Corey MacKinnon denied a request, filed May ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has been housing inmates at a Louisiana facility in order to remain in compliance.

The county has failed to comply with Texas' mandated ratio of one detention officer for every 48 inmates, Sheriff Byron Lyons wrote in a news release Wednesday.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is temporarily housing inmates at a facility in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, due to staffing shortages at the Polk County Jail.