12 inmates from Wakulla Correctional Institution officially graduated from Persevere, a nonprofit program in seven different states that piloted last year in the Florida Department of Corrections.

Local and Florida state officials are still searching for two inmates who escaped the Taylor County Jail earlier this week, ...

Dianne Hart via Florida House Her proposal (HB 183) would reduce the minimum sentence that a defendant must serve in Florida prisons from 85% of its original length to 72%. The legislation says that ...

Questions regarding his employment status were directed to the Florida Department of Corrections. The investigation remains ongoing.

With the impeding retirement of Marion County Sheriff's Maj. Clint Bowen as head of the jail, Sheriff Billy Woods has selected Charles McIntosh as the new leader of the facility. Bowen, elevated to ...

On Jan. 23, the Rice County Attorney’s Office filed charges against Devin Jarid Vu, 27, a DOC inmate at MCF-Faribault. At the time of the alleged offenses, Vu was serving a prison sentence for ...

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A federal district court judge on Friday declined to block enforcement of a Florida Department of Corrections policy banning most sex change treatments and social ...

An inmate accused of spitting on a corrections officer in Indiana County has been sentenced. Indiana County District Attorney ...

Officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections say an investigation is underway after an inmate reportedly died earlier this week at SCI Somerset. Authorities say 44-year-old Steve ...

The new policy overturns a 2016 settlement that allowed access to hormone therapy and gender-appropriate clothing for transgender inmates. The ACLU is vowing to continue the fight to restore access to ...

At least three prisons have a 50% vacancy rate, with some so short-staffed that they have been incapable of complying with policies on safety, medical treatment and solitary confinement.

The Marshall Project examines new restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons, from confiscating undergarments to ...