The agency that oversees Florida's six privately run prisons needs to ensure that problems found during audits — such as broken alarms and unsanitary infirmaries — are quickly fixed, lawmakers were told today as part of a report reviewing the agency. ...more

March 12, 2009

Several inmates were injured in at a federal prison outside Ocala this afternoon when a fight broke out in the recreation yard, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. ...more

March 12, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is realizing savings through a sewing program. ...more

March 12, 2009

A Spring Hill man incarcerated at the local jail was charged with attempted escape after deputies discovered concrete blocks chiseled away inside his cell, authorities said. ...more

March 11, 2009

Inmates are being kept in stitches through a sewing program the Pasco Sheriff's Office has started. The program teaches prisoners a vocational skill while cutting costs at the jails by patching mattresses and other items, according to a press release today from Tim Couet, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. ...more

March 5, 2009

Stephanie Ragusa believes she is being harassed by the staff at the Hillsborough County jail, where she is being held without bond on charges of molesting two teenagers at the school where she taught. ...more

March 4, 2009

A detention sergeant at the Pinellas County Jail was demoted to the rank of deputy after he took a television out of an inmate pod to punish unruly inmates, then misrepresented the damage he had done to the television in the process, according to memorandums released this morning by the sheriff's office. Former Sgt. Shane Stradley was also suspended for 80 hours, the memorandums say. ...more

February 26, 2009

A gym, barber shop and planters of plastic flowers: Welcome to the gentler face of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. ...more

February 22, 2009

A massive manhunt is on for six inmates who escaped this evening from a state prison on DeSoto County. ...more

January 7, 2009

A paperwork error gave Lawrence Campanello a few hours of freedom this morning, even though he still had 60 days remaining on his jail sentence. ...more

December 31, 2008