Florida Prison System

The department is asking Tallahassee lawmakers for $5 million to consider where the state should build new prisons — and what those facilities should look like in the future.

Simpson blamed chronic staffing shortages and high turnover rates on corrections officials’ “lack of vision” and “myopia” in operating the troubled prison system.

Senate President Wilton Simpson's proposal to consolidate prisons and demolish four facilities drew opposition from leaders in those rural communities.

As Florida's Legislature finishes its work in the Capitol, efforts fizzled that seemed promising just weeks ago to reduce prison sentences for non-violent…

Janice Spears spent her last shift as a correctional officer in the prison chapel.She knows it was 2015 but says symptoms of what she described as…

The state has launched more than 900 investigations into deaths in Florida prisons over a five-year span, with causes ranging from overdoses to homicides,…

By News Service of Florida Nearly two months after the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Florida Department of Corrections for "widely overusing"...

Female inmates will now get basic hygiene products such as pads and tampons for free after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed challenging the use of solitary confinement in Florida prisons.

After admitting they failed to adequately screen prisoners for the highly contagious disease, Florida corrections officials are challenging a federal...

Serial killer Bobby Joe Long is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison in the 1984 murder of Michelle Simms in Hillsborough...