Col. Jim Previtera, the new head of Hillsborough County's jails, has ordered his staff to immediately conserve energy on the job. ...more

October 21, 2008

From child protection to prisons, no state service is immune from potentially draconian funding cuts next year, as the state struggles to fill a budget hole as large as $3.5 billion. ...more

October 19, 2008

TAMPA - Col. Jim Previtera, the new head of Hillsborough County's jails, ordered his staffers Wednesday to immediately conserve energy on the job. ...more

October 17, 2008

The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals. ...more

October 15, 2008

The weekend work release program is now up and running fully again, following a Friday meeting between the sheriff's office, the clerk of court's office and Highlands County Court Judge Anthony Ritenour. ...more

October 15, 2008

Highlands County Court Judge Anthony Ritenour will not allow inmates to serve jail time on the weekend work release program until changes are implemented. ...more

October 8, 2008

O.J. Simpson is being isolated from other prisoners for his own safety, and is focusing on a motion for a new trial and a strong bid for appellate reversal of his conviction for kidnapping and robbery, his lawyer said Sunday. ...more

October 6, 2008

Steve LaBrake, the former Tampa housing director who was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary in a bribery scandal, will serve out the remainder of his term in a halfway house in Tampa, federal prison officials said. ...more

September 30, 2008

Zackery Hicks just got out of prison last month after serving a 14-year term for robbery, and his new prison is marked by the roar of overhead traffic and the danger of getting snakebit or beat up. The situation is the way it is because Hicks is a registered sex offender, and this situation is not all that uncommon in Florida, where the oppressive stigma of being a sex offender is nearly insurmountable. Some cities across the nation have passed laws that are so restrictive, sex offenders cannot reside there. ...more

September 19, 2008

As much as the city council has lamented the fiasco that the effort to conceal City Hall's giant generator has become, they sure do have fun discussing it. ...more

September 19, 2008