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CorrectionsOne
April 4, 2018
... a minimum of two per month, for two hours at a time on alternating weekends, depending on the inmate's ID number. Currently, visitation at Florida's state prisons is allowed every weekend as well as holidays. A prisoner works on the lawn at the Dade Correctional Institution on Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Florida City, Fla.
Madison.com
April 4, 2018
A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in federal prison for planting credit card skimming devices inside gas pumps in Madison that were ... In Florida, Arias-Perez is charged with mail fraud, unauthorized use of credit cards, unauthorized possession of credit cards, aggravated identity theft andÃâà...
Tampabay.com
April 4, 2018
Demetrius Moore, 24, helps Demetrius Moore, Jr., 2, pick out a toy to play with at Everglades Re-Entry Center on the campus of Everglades Correctional Institution on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Children of Inmates, Inc. and the Florida Department of Corrections arranged for children to reconnect with theirÃâà...
The Florida Times-Union
April 4, 2018
Florida has the nation's third largest prison system, with 97,000 inmates scattered across almost 150 institutions statewide, including 50 major prisons. ... Kyle Williford, 30, of Orlando, who was released last month after serving three years at Hardee Correctional Institution following a burglary conviction.
Daily Commercial
April 3, 2018
“This is bad for the inmates, and the correctional officers.” The schedule change was unveiled after the Florida Times-Union began reporting on concerns surrounding prison visitations — obtaining records that revealed thousands of strip searches, mostly of inmate wives, mothers, girlfriends and femaleÃâà...
Petoskey News-Review
April 3, 2018
According to a report from the Panama City News-Herald via the Associated Press, in addition to the life sentence, circuit court Judge Brantley Clark Jr. also sentenced Reager to an additional 45 years in prison. The sentences are consecutive, so if the life sentence is overturned for any reason, he wouldÃâà...
WTXL ABC 27
April 3, 2018
"In spite of our diligent efforts, we are experiencing a vast increaase in the amount of contraband being introduced into correctional facilities satewide, which ... The groups include Florida's Campaign for Prison Reform, Fight Toxic Prisons, Forgotten Majority and Florida Cares in addition to family membersÃâà...
ABC Action News
March 26, 2018
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A package of contraband covered in grass clippings that was dropped by a drone at a Panhandle prison is one of the most recent examples of inmates using advanced technology to smuggle illegal items behind prison walls. The News-Journal reports that authorities areÃâà...
Complex
March 21, 2018
A judge has granted the Florida native's petition that a tutor visit him while he's serving out his sentence in a Florida prison. Kodak also requested a laptop, though there's no word on whether that will be granted. He's planning to get his GED with the tutor's help. Kodak was ordered to spend 30 days in anÃâà...
The Florida Times-Union
March 21, 2018
Thomas has been subjected to full-body searches at Baker Correctional Institution during visits to see her son. The breast cancer survivor believes her ... Contraband seized in Florida prisons has risen steadily over the last five years, climbing nearly 50 percent from 2012 to 2017. Over that time, the share of the bannedÃâà...
WMUR Manchester
March 20, 2018
The man convicted in the 2007 triple murder of three men in Conway has been charged in the beating death of his cellmate in a Florida prison. Michael Woodbury was indicted on the new charges late last week. Advertisement. He was transferred to Florida in 2009. >> Download the FREE WMUR app.
Sun Sentinel (blog)
March 19, 2018
School shooter Nikolas Cruz appeared in a Broward courtroom Wednesday to face an arraignment on 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. Dan SweeneyContact ReporterSouth Florida Sun Sentinel. Privacy Policy. Five students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who have been calling forÃâà...
WFTV Orlando
March 15, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In 1989, Richard Delisi was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and trafficking in cannabis; he was 40 at the time, and he'll be 75 when he's eligible to be released. Delisi is a remnant of Florida's crackdown on crime and his age means he is likely costing the stateÃâà...
WFTV Orlando
March 14, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In 1989, Richard Delisi was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and trafficking in cannabis; he was 40 at the time, and he'll be 75 when he's eligible to be released. Delisi is a remnant of Florida's crackdown on crime and his age means he is likely costing the stateÃâà...
WUFT
March 13, 2018
In the past month, weekend visitation has been canceled at 13 Florida prisons “in response to significant contraband recoveries” and subsequent ... of three correctional officers for the introduction of contraband during the same span of time and at the same institutions that had weekend visitations canceled.
Pensacola News Journal
March 12, 2018
Inmate Jim Desir, 37, was pronounced deceased at the prison Saturday, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. The incident is under active investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with assistance from FDOC's Office of the Inspector General. FDOC said there is no moreÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 12, 2018
Getting busted employing that angle got Bernavil sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison last week. Bernavil pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the preparation and presentation of fraudulent income tax returns and one count of presentation of fraudulent returns. He's got aÃâà...
Greensboro News & Record
March 12, 2018
A man who avoided apprehension from Florida and federal law enforcement for more than 30 years and created a life under a new identity in Reidsville, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in an 1977 murder plot that led to the death of an immigration service official in Marion County, Florida.
Miami Herald
March 11, 2018
A Florida man's Facebook account contained gushing posts with affectionate photos of him and his kids. But on Twitter, in direct ... That Twitter activity, especially the visual aids, led to the Mulberry man pleading guilty to 50 counts of child pornography possession and getting 18 years in prison last Tuesday.
ActionNewsJax.com
March 9, 2018
Starting next month, families will only be able to visit their loved ones in Florida state prisons every other weekend. The Florida Department of Corrections blames the change on staff shortages and contraband. A video shot by a Florida inmate on a contraband cellphone shows inmates behind bars with aÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
March 1, 2018
When I wrote my article, “Florida Prisoners Are Laying It Down,” which was published online on Jan. 9, 2018, the FSP warden, Barry Reddish, incensed by my publishing abusive conditions in Florida's prisons – especially in FSP – had me targeted with a bogus retaliatory disciplinary report (DR), chargingÃâà...
The Ledger
February 28, 2018
WINTER HAVEN — The Florida Department of Corrections fired a corrections officer at the Lake Correctional Institution in Clermont two days after Polk County sheriff's deputies arrested him on domestic violence charges. Jarvis Lamar Stewart, 38, of Davenport had worked with the department for nearly sixÃâà...
The Ledger
February 27, 2018
WINTER HAVEN — Polk County sheriff's deputies on Sunday arrested a Florida Department of Corrections sergeant on domestic-violence charges after receiving a 911 ... The department hired Stewart on June 8, 2012, as a correctional officer at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution, the statement said.
Miami Herald
February 21, 2018
Florida has the nation's third-largest prison system, behind California and Texas. The FDC has 148 facilities statewide, including 50 major institutions, 17 annexes, seven private facilities, 35 work camps, three re-entry centers, two road prisons, one forestry camp and one boot camp. With 97,000 inmatesÃâà...
Miami Herald
February 18, 2018
He describes Florida's prisons as in constant triage mode: Cellphones and illegal drugs are routinely smuggled into prison cells. Inmates are aging and healthcare costs are exploding. Staff shortages are so common that captains, who are paid a salary, demote themselves to qualify for overtime pay. AndÃâà...
The Independent
February 17, 2018
Matthew Trevino was having a schizophrenic episode when Cpl Robert Haas fired a Nova flashbang round at him using a 12-gauge shotgun at Pasco County Jail in Florida during August 2015. Footage of the incident captured by another deputy is now likely to form part of a civil rights lawsuit filed againstÃâà...
WFTV Orlando
February 6, 2018
9 Investigates reviewed hundreds of court documents and investigative reports involving 40 correctional officers and other prison employees, who ... Their photos were taken when they were arrested at Florida state prisons on charges of introducing contraband, official misconduct or unlawful compensation.
WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
January 30, 2018
DAVIE, FLA. (WSVN) - Officials are investigating after videos taken inside three Florida prisons apparently showed inmates possessing weapons, using drugs, ... While in prison, the Department of Corrections said Harris was disciplined for bringing in contraband, which included a cell phone and weapon.
Pensacola News Journal
December 31, 1999
His death is part of an alarming set of statistics that show Florida Department of Corrections facilities across the Panhandle are bearing the brunt of ... The three major prisons in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties — Century Correctional Institution, Santa Rosa Correctional Institution and Blackwater RiverÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
A federal prison guard in Florida has pleaded guilty to working with an inmate in a fraud scheme. ... Sabatino used the phones to trick luxury store employees and brand representatives to send jewelry, watches and other items to outside co-conspirators in South Florida who sold them at pawn shops andÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
December 31, 1999
In Florida, about one of every four people in prison will wind up back in prison soon after being released. We Floridians bear the cost of their new crimes, as well as the roughly $20,000 per year it costs to keep them in prison again. With almost 100,000 people in Florida prisons, this ends up making a bigÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
A Florida man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a fatal drug deal. Feb. 24, 2018, at 3:01 a.m.. Man Gets 25 Years in Prison for Fatal Drug Deal ... A co-defendant was previously sentenced to 12 years in prison for his part in the shooting. ___. Information from: Naples (Fla.) Daily News, http://www.naplesnews.com.
ActionNewsJax.com
December 31, 1999
Contraband has gotten so bad in Florida prisons that the Florida Department of Corrections is cutting visitation in half. Action News Jax's sister station in Orlando WFTV revealed that one inmate was using a contraband cellphone to harass a rape victim from behind bars.
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