Starting salaries for Florida correctional officers, probation officers and inspectors could increase to $28 an hour, Lt. Gov ...

Amid execution, Ronald Heath and Melvin Trotter allege that the Florida Department of Corrections has violated its lethal ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – Richard Randolph died by lethal injection Thursday at 6:12 p.m. inside the Union Correctional Institution. More than three decades ago, he was sentenced to death for the rape and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida Channel screenshot of FDC Sec. Ricky Dixon on Oct. 15, 2025. Gov. Ron DeSantis is requesting the Legislature provide ...

Florida Department of Corrections and Centurion of Florida sued for failing to provide basic eye surgeries. Christopher O’Donnell is the health and medicine reporter. He can be reached at ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Department of Corrections announced a $1,000 hiring bonus on Monday for those who choose to become state correctional officers at select locations statewide.

Base pay for correctional officers in Florida could rise $6 per hour.

The Florida Department of Corrections has announced the seizure of three pounds of marijuana and several firearms.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is requesting the Legislature provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) in his proposed fiscal year 2026-2027 budget, but a Democratic ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...