Prisons

This year, The State of Florida has done something it has never done before, leading the nation in executions. Already in 2025, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the death warrants for 15 death row inmates.

Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, interviewed neighbors of the new immigration detention center in North Florida called the Detention Depot last week.

As the state struggles with a shortage of correctional officers, a legislative panel this week will consider a plan that would activate Florida National Guard members to help at prisons, according to a document published Friday.

Measures for Justice is a data-driven nonprofit tracking county-by-county data for crime, arrests, prosecutions, and more in an effort to assess—and hold…

Recently, we got some big news: The Department of Justice will end its use of private prisons. This means that about a dozen prisons – housing about…