If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Extreme heat at a Miami-area prison without air conditioning has subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment, ...

Florida does not offer parole for most inmates incarcerated in its correctional facilities. But under a bill that passed in a ...

A Tampa Bay lawmaker is fighting for legislation that would protect the rights of prisoners in the state’s corrections system ...

Legislation authorizing the Department of Corrections to find alternative means of imposing the death sentence and limiting ...

Despite efforts in places like Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, the prison reform movement largely bypassed Florida ...

The bill would allow people in Florida’s prisons to use credit hours and coursework toward a license for careers such as ...

Inmates convicted of capital crimes may be sentenced ... Florida’s current three-legged electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and ...

Starting in the 2010s, many of the country’s reddest states began enacting serious criminal justice reforms, culminating on ...

That same day, at Florida Department of Corrections facilities across the state, transgender inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria were rounded up and informed that FDC policy had been changed, “up ...

The last American inmate to be killed by firing squad ... nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and installed at Florida State Prison in Raiford ...