TAMPA - The state Department of Corrections will demote three high ranking officials and has taken steps to suspend them without pay because of how they allowed hundreds of inmates to transfer between prisons throughout Florida, Corrections Secretary James McDonough said today. ...more

October 8, 2007

HOLIDAY – A resident on Seffner Drive in Holiday walked out of his house Wednesday night and heard his neighbor make an alarming statement. ...more

September 13, 2007

CHARLOTTE COUNTY - Prison officials are investigating the death of Richard Seccia, 69, who was found "unresponsive in his cell" about 5 p.m. Monday at the Charlotte County Correctional Institution. He had been sentenced to life for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old boy. ...more

September 13, 2007