LEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A fugitive who escaped a Puerto Rican prison 40 years ago was apprehended in Florida. "My team’s ...

Authorities say they disrupted a scheme by a 450-pound Florida prison guard to smuggle a half-pound of illegal drugs into the ...

A corrections officer trainee at Suwannee Correctional Institution has been arrested on drug charges after a multi-agency investigation ...

Construction of a new jail is moving to the forefront of City Hall's to-do list. A big question is what part of Jacksonville ...

A woman from Lake City training to become a state corrections employee will be spending time on the other side of the bars ...

Jakaleb Thomas, a correctional officer trainee, was arrested after a joint investigation by the Columbia County Sheriff’s ...

An organization monitoring public policy in Florida is advocating for the state to establish a Criminal Justice Commission to help improve the prison system.

Milla-Valdes escaped from a prison in Puerto Rico in 1987, LCSO said. LCSO's Fugitive Warrants Unit searched for Milla-Valdes ...

A federal judge sentenced a dentist to prison in connection with violent threats he sent ... Richard Glenn Kantwill, of Tampa ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP ... felony has a maximum penalty of up to 30 years in prison, with a minimum/mandatory 15 years under Florida’s enhanced trafficking laws. Circuit Court Judge ...