The Senate approved sweeping mental health reforms to help people get treatment instead of keeping them locked up in prison.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has expanded its detention capacity in Florida with the addition of 500 beds ...

Former Sanford School basketball standout Monick Foote, Delaware State running back Gene Lake among the honorees ...

Could Florida be next? The Sunshine State has executed people by electrocution since 1924, and lethal injection was added in ...

HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN CONCORD ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A ROUGHLY $21 MILLION A YEAR CUT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IN THE NEXT STATE BUDGET, ELIMINATING 191 TOTAL POSITIONS, 99 OF WHICH ARE ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his upcoming execution, arguing that his obesity and health conditions could cause his chosen method of lethal injection to go wrong.

If passed by the Florida Legislature as proposed ... being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." ...

Drought conditions continue to impact Florida and no respite is expected Friday, March 28. Track fires burning around Florida in interactive map ... opposite side of the state, residents in ...

As rain continues to elude most of Florida, the number of wildfires continues to grow across the state, and several counties were placed under a red flag warning Friday, March 28. As of Friday ...

The biggest wildfire to hit the state was in 1998, dubbed the Florida Firestorm. It was so massive it required a record-breaking assembly of 10,000 firefighters from 47 different states to battle ...

A federal judge found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” but did not order the state to begin installing air conditioners. While U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ...

Anthony Curry, 48, was hit with a murder rap last week after his spouse, 47-year-old Tania Thomas, was strangled to death at the Mule Creek State Prison near Sacramento during a visit last July ...