A senior policy analyst at the Florida Policy Institute writes that a serious look at waste, fraud and abuse in Florida state ...

Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the ...

A man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was carjacked on her lunch break has been executed in Florida.

Florida’s current three-legged electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections ...

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

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

LAKELAND, Fla. - A 70-year-old Lakeland man, John Mihalek, was arrested on Monday evening, April 7th, by a Polk County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) deputy and an ...

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held at the Century Correctional Institution Tuesday, unveiling the first tiny home completed as part of the Tiny Home Program at the ...

nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and installed at Florida State Prison in Raiford in 1999. Legislation passed in 2000 allows for lethal ...