After two days of testimony, a Fort Myers judge considers class action and injunction on detainee legal access at Alligator ...

Those "jury duty" scam calls many Central Floridians have been getting may be coming from an unexpected place: a prison ...

A Brevard corrections officer was arrested Jan. 25 on charges that she brought illegal drugs into the county jail.

A man convicted of killing a grocery store owner will be Florida's second execution of 2026 after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed ...

TALLAHASSEE — Resuming a rapid pace of executions, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office recently settled a lawsuit over the death of Shaun Seaman, who was killed by a violent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The ...

Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Three inmates who escaped the DeKalb County Jail allegedly kidnapped their Lyft driver and forced her to drive them to South Florida. During the 10-hour ordeal, the men reportedly bound the driver ...

Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including a murder suspect, commandeered a terrified Lyft driver's car to reach south Florida before she was rescued and they were captured, ...

ATLANTA — Three escaped inmates wrapped a rope around their Lyft driver’s neck, tied her wrists and dragged her into the car’s back seat during a 10-hour getaway trip from metro Atlanta to South ...

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