Florida Prisons

Senate President Wilton Simpson has a message for state prison leaders: Shut down institutions if you want pay raises for overworked corrections officers.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced Friday that he has created a new organization to help reduce the state’s recidivism rate through increased investment in…

A former inmate has turned his life around by using art to spotlight issues in the state’s criminal justice system.Moliere Dimanche, now an artist and…

TALLAHASSEE — Lawyers for convicted felons filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against Florida officials, alleging that the state's process for restoring…

Prison ReformWe discuss the push to end mass incarceration in this country and reform the U.S. criminal justice system.Annually, $80 billion is spent on…

A deal on the state's public-safety budget that lawmakers reached late Friday would not give the Department of Corrections the 734 additional positions…

Inmates won't be reading a newspaper banned by Florida corrections officials anytime soon, due to a decision by a Tallahassee federal judge who said the…

The deaths of two inmates at Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson, Florida last week have sparked call for reform of the state’s correctional…

An internal investigation is underway following the deaths of two inmates at Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson, Florida last week. They’re just…

Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones plans to bar the use of chemical agents on prisoners with histories of respiratory ailments and is…