Department of Corrections

A Florida inmate is suing the state’s Department of Correction over allegations that an officer put chlorine bleach in her drink

Officials are investigating after a video posted to YouTube appears to show a group of officers beating an inmate on the lawn of a Florida prison.

Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Department of Corrections probation office in Miami Gardens in a killing that was caught on camera.

Out of 54 California agencies surveyed by the Investigative Unit, 20 percent had launched internal pornography investigations since 2015.

Florida officials have evacuated nearly 3,000 inmates after two prisons were damaged during Hurricane Michael.

Florida prisons are cutting mental health, substance abuse and re-entry programs to help make up for a $50 million shortfall in its healthcare and pharmaceuticals budgets.

The family of a mentally ill Florida inmate who died after being left for nearly two hours in a hot shower has settled a civil rights lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections.

The Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the crash took place Sunday morning in Hardee County, located east of Sarasota.

Students are off and running this school year and Miami-Dade Corrections officers are making sure every student is prepared and ready to go.

The man who police say has confessed to stabbing his 6-year-old sister and two young cousins Friday made a series of strange outbursts during a wild court hearing in which families had to be separated Monday.

Police in Maryland said a man confessed to stabbing his 6-year-old sister and his two young cousins while they were lying in bed. Antonio Shareek Williams, 25, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of the three girls in Prince George’s County. Police said their bodies were discovered around 7:30...

With authorities ruling the cause of Aaron Hernandez’s death a suicide, his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, has filed a motion on behalf of their daughter to preserve any evidence in his death.

Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez’s death has officially been ruled a suicide, according to the district attorney’s office in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, an explosive tight end who had been convicted of murder and last week cleared in two other killings, was discovered dead in his prison cell by a corrections officer early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

A felon serving time in the Indian River County Jail voted by mail in the Nov. 8 election because Florida’s cumbersome system for purging felons from the voter registration rolls had not yet caught up with him.

Florida’s prison agency says it is planning to hire more than 4,000 new correctional officers in the next 15 months.

Two-time convicted sex offender Michael Leverett could’ve been back roaming his Davie street in 2009, after his second prison sentence since 1979 for sex crimes involving underage girls.

Florida’s prisons are understaffed, lack adequate prison programs and have deteriorating facilities and fences.

If you walked into the visitation room at the Everglades Correctional Institution and had no idea what was going on, the hugs, kisses, tears and abundance of kids would be big clues.

Gov. Rick Scott is ordering an independent analysis of the state’s prison system and the development of two prisons to test new ways of handling and housing prisoners with mental health issues, as well as the general population.