Florida inmates are approved for the same surgery when their vision tests 20/50 or worse, department standards state. But ...

For many children, holidays highlight the absence of a parent behind bars, but Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree program offers ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last ...

Last month, Brad Keith Sigmon became the first inmate in South Carolina to be executed by firing squad in modern history and the first in the U.S. since 2010. Since 1977, only three other inmates have ...

A nearly two-year investigation has concluded that overcrowding and understaffing has resulted in a high number of complaints ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than a century in parts of South Florida, and Dwayne Wilson could hear his 81-year-old fellow inmate gasping for breath and crying out for ...

Smoke filled the administrative confinement ward at the privately-owned Graceville Correctional Facility in Jackson County within minutes, one inmate told his mother. Inmates screamed out: "We're ...

More than a month after Florida opened "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, the state and ICE signed an updated agreement spelling out how state corrections officials should handle federal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest ...