Julie Jones

An inmate at a Florida prison strangled his cellmate, gouged the body’s eyes and then strung the dead inmate’s ear around his neck with a string before breakfast, according to a report.

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.

Researchers with the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum have been documenting the artifact and say it could date back as far as the 1700s.

NBC 6 meteorologist Angie Lassman provides a forecast update.

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

The private company responsible for providing health care to most of Florida’s prisons says it is terminating its contract.

Authorities in north Florida say more than 50 people, including 10 former corrections officers, participated in a painkiller distribution ring that involved sneaking the drugs into Florida State Prison.

An independent audit commissioned by the Florida Department of Corrections has concluded that Florida’s prisons are so “chronically understaffed” that an emergency should be declared to keep corrections officers and inmates safe.

Florida prisons chief Julie Jones says she knows of no further Ku Klux Klan activity by Florida prison officials, beyond two guards and a former guard arrested last week on charges of plotting to kill a black inmate.

A bid to keep prison investigators from revealing what’s going on in the state’s troubled prison system has sparked a lawsuit.

The assistant warden at a north Florida women’s prison has been fired following allegations that he had inappropriate relationships with some of the inmates and threatened members of his staff.

Florida’s new prisons chief on Tuesday promised wide-ranging changes amid the suspicious deaths of dozens of inmates in the state’s prisons..