As a federal judge weighs whether to temporarily shut down Alligator Alcatraz, the DeSantis administration is making plans to turn a vacant North Florida prison into an immigration detention center for more than 1,

State Attorney Dennis Ward announced that Stephen Salyer, 57, was sentenced to 22 years in Florida prison, followed by eight years of sex offender probation, for violating the terms of […]

A Michigan man who fled to Florida is headed to prison for sexual assault of a minor, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office reports. Alex New, 55, a Branch County resident, was recently extradited from Florida to face charges and has been sentenced to serve at least 58 years incarceration.

Ghislaine Maxwell's move came after she spent two days spilling what she knew about Epstein's sex crimes to Justice Department officials

T ALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Florida State University is helping inmates in Florida use art to process complex emotions and memories. FSU launched The Institute for the Arts and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned this month. The program provides art therapy to incarcerated individuals.

He injected fentanyl on the job, then was seen leaving a bathroom "stumbling, slurring his speech, and falling asleep," prosecutors said.

The owner and captain of a South Florida scuba charter vessel was sentenced Monday to more than eight years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of seaman’s manslaughter, lying to the Coast Guard,

Prosecutors accused Miguel Aguasvivas-Lizardo of transporting illicit cash since 2021, hauling hundreds of thousands of dollars to Miami, often from the Orlando-area, and ultimately laundering