The subway train that plowed into another, causing a crash that killed seven and injured scores of others in the nation's capital, was part of an aging fleet that federal officials had sought to phase out due to safety concerns, an investigator said Tuesday. But the Metrorail transit system "was not able to do what we asked them to do," and the old trains kept running despite the 2006 warnings, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board. ...more

June 23, 2009

A Florida corrections officer has been fired after zapping children with 50,000 volts of electricity during a "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" tour. ...more

May 2, 2009

Offenders sentenced to wear ankle bracelets would have to pay for their own monitoring, up to about $3,300 a year, under a bill Florida lawmakers advanced Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009

Florida's corrections system would have to close prisons and end education and substance abuse programs under a state budget scenario unveiled Thursday. ...more

March 20, 2009

Warden Rod James asked the busload of arriving inmates to raise their hands if they had been incarcerated at least once before. ...more

February 9, 2009

Warden Rod James asked the busload of arriving inmates to raise their hands if they had been incarcerated at least once before. ...more

February 8, 2009

Restoring money cut last year to prison education programs and increasing money to programs that would help prepare inmates to re-enter society are some of the top priorities for The Department of Corrections, the department's top official said Wednesday. ...more

November 19, 2008

Erika Williams turned 20 on Monday and wanted to get a new tattoo to celebrate. So she called a close friend to take her out. ...more

September 3, 2008

Regarding "Florida Prison Chief Offers Good Plan To Stop Cycle Of Recidivism" (Our Opinion, July 23): ...more

July 28, 2008

It's ironic that Florida's prison system is called the Department of Corrections, since there is very little correcting going on. ...more

July 23, 2008