The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now handling the investigation into an officer-involved shooting that left one ...

The Florida Department of Corrections recently hosted an advanced K-9 tracking and training event. The event served as a ...

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their ...

David Joseph Pittman was executed at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday at Florida State Prison in Raiford. Image courtesy of Florida Department of Corrections Sept. 17 (UPI) --A Florida man convicted more than 30 ...

Florida Department of Corrections was hit with a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit on Sept. 24 in Florida Circuit Court for Leon County. The action, brought by Marie A. Mattox on behalf of a former ...

That amount didn't include funding for salaries of correction officers, which he said rank among the lowest for its size in ...

Dozens and perhaps hundreds of individuals who applied to visit inmates at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County last weekend had their personal contact information shared ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More than a month after Florida opened “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades, the state and ICE signed an updated agreement spelling out how state corrections officials should ...

Prisoners in the Florida Department of Corrections system are often held under many of the same inhumane conditions present at Alligator Alcatraz. My uncle is one of them. Prisoners in the Florida ...

More than two years after being deployed amid a major staffing crisis, the National Guard is set to leave Florida prisons after this month. Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 announced a plan to use the ...

More than a month after Florida opened "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, the state and ICE signed an updated agreement spelling out how state corrections officials should handle federal ...