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Florida’s House Majority Leader is weighing in on a controversy surrounding the Florida Department of Corrections and its decision to close a popular...
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Fifty-five years in prison is not the same as a life sentence, a Florida appeals court ruled Monday. The sentence was handed down to a 16-year-old...
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Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a new pathway to sentence someone to death Monday. These changes came nearly two months after the U.S. Supreme Court too...
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A deal on the state's public-safety budget that lawmakers reached late Friday would not give the Department of Corrections the 734 additional positions ...
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The Florida House is moving forward with a new capital sentencing scheme after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the existing system just over a month ...
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Jan. 12, 2016 turned out to be Cary Lambrix’s lucky day. It was on that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida's death sentencing process was un...
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NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA/TALLAHASSEE Hours after listening to arguments about the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the state's de...
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State corrections officials have hired Centurion of Florida LLC to take over prison health services for more than three-fourths of Florida's 100,000 inm...
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A Florida House panel is slated to take up a death-penalty proposal Tuesday, three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida's death-penalty...
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A bill expunging the criminal records of certain minors when they become an adult has passed the full Florida Senate.