Joel Searby is now being housed at the North Florida Reception and Medical Center, which is part of the corrections facility in Lake Butler. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on child sex crimes ...

A new law in Florida aims to provide mental health support to inmates, offering help instead of punishment. Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Tristin Murphy Act on Wednesday. It's named after Tristin ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a plan to build an immigrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades.

A Canadian man being held by immigration officials in South Florida has died in federal custody, officials said.

Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...

Jurors heard Thursday about Walker’s prior homicide conviction as prosecutors seek the death penalty for the 14-year-old’s ...

Michael Bell's appeal comes after a hearing in which two witnesses from his 1995 trial were expected to say their testimony ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Change is coming to the way people with mental illness are addressed within the criminal justice system.

“Alligator Alcatraz” is catchy branding but a misnomer. Unlike the former maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in San ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis. has approved a measure designed to better provide mental health treatment to detainees in Florida jails ...

Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s ...

WASHINGTON—Picking up on a statement issued by Chairwoman Nikki Fried, Florida Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday slammed the ...