Florida prisons

This post will be updated today, Monday, September 28, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

The Florida Department of Corrections plans to resume allowing visitors at state prisons on Oct. 2.

This post will be updated today, Wednesday, Aug. 26, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

As the numbers of COVID-19 deaths and infections in prisons soar, workers, inmates and their loved ones continue to plead for help from the state.

This post will be updated today, Friday, August 14, and through the weekend with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

At least 11 inmates at a South Florida correctional facility have died of COVID-19, as the death toll in the state prison system continues to climb. A…

The Florida Department of Health on Wednesday said a dozen inmates died from complications of COVID-19 at eight prisons within the past week.Dade…

“They are dying in the heat,” said the distraught mother of an inmate at Dade Correctional Institution in Miami. “What have we done to deserve this. … How…

TALLAHASSEE --- The number of Florida corrections workers known to be infected with COVID-19 has more than doubled during the past month, prompting state…

This post will be updated today, Wednesday, June 24, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida. WLRN staff continues…

TALLAHASSEE --- Eight Florida prisons are hot spots for COVID-19, with the number of inmates testing positive for the highly contagious disease continuing…

TALLAHASSEE --- A private prison company that operates a Northwest Florida facility where four inmates have died of COVID-19 unexpectedly released…