A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in ...

Jobs will soon be returning to Gulf County. The Florida Department of Corrections has decided to re-open the Gulf ...

All three plaintiffs said they suffered from heat illness this summer amid record-high temperatures and no A/C in the ...

Warren, 61, pleaded guilty to the 1990 murder of Marlene Warren, the woman who was married to the man she was having an ...

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...

The lawsuit, which names the Florida Department of Corrections, the secretary of the department and the warden of DCI as defendants, argues that the conditions violate the protections of the ...

“And here, basically, (the Florida Department of Corrections) is incarcerating at this prison 1,300 people in these concrete boxes all summer along, and basically ignoring their pleas for relief ...

According to testimony that Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon gave to state lawmakers last year, 75% of the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than a century in parts of South Florida, and Dwayne Wilson could hear his 81-year-old fellow inmate gasping for breath and crying ...