Jim Guy Tucker, whose tumultuous 30-year career in politics included terms as a prosecuting attorney, attorney general, ...

A Florida corrections officer is dead after he was shot in a targeted attack, officials said early Tuesday.

James D. Ford, who was convicted of killing a young married couple on a remote fishing trip, is scheduled to be executed ...

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was ...

According to one mother who spoke with her son who is in the jail, inmates screamed out: "We're going to die back here. There's a fire — it's bad." ...

When criminals are released from prison, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is tasked with keeping a close eye on ...

A man who escaped from a federal prison camp in Englewood and lived on the run for five years was sentenced to 10 years in ...

A Florida corrections officer is dead after he was shot in a targeted attack, officials said early Tuesday. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said on social media that its deputies were ...

The DOC started overseeing Graceville and six other private prisons in 2023, according to a report by the Florida Phoenix. The transition to the DOC from the state’s Department of Management ...

A view outside a state prison in Florida. A Tallahassee Democrat reporter attempted to reach out to Charles Hines, Keller's son who was sentenced to three years in prison for drug-related offenses ...

James Ford is set to die by lethal injection and would be the first execution of the year at Florida State Prison.

A corrections deputy was shot and killed in south Florida on Monday night in what authorities are describing as a "targeted" attack. Basil Powell, 39, was "targeted and ambushed while returning ...