Jail and Corrections

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (331+ words) A 22-year-old Mount Vernon man was sentenced Thursday to 3 1/2 years in state prison after firing shots in retaliation for an earlier attack, striking an innocent 70-year-old bystander seated in a pickup truck. Westchester County Judge George Fufidio handed down the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (237+ words) A Lee County man is accused of violating his probation following an arrest for DUI and causing multiple car crashes. According to Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers, Daniel Montecinos, 25, was driving with a BAC over three times the legal limit when…...

4+ day, 55+ min ago   (1565+ words) The use of small cages to punish immigration detainees in the Florida Everglades may have violated international law on humane treatment, experts told the Miami Herald. At the state-run facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” officers and detainees called the cages…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (725+ words) Thursday, October 1, 2026 by Ernesto Alvarez A detention facility dubbed Alligator Alcatraz in Florida's Everglades operated with an authorized daily rate of $249 per detainee, significantly exceeding the ICE median of $92 by about 171% during the fiscal year 2026. This startling figure was uncovered…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (410+ words) A Florida man is finally facing justice for allegedly gunning down a young mom in her car, stealing the vehicle and ditching it — leaving her 1-year-old daughter to die strapped inside, according to prosecutors. Doujon Griffiths, 26, is on trial in…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (502+ words) CASPER, Wyo. — A 27-year-old Casper man got a straight prison sentence on Tuesday for discharging a firearm into the ceiling above his apartment last October. Judge Kerri Johnson agreed with investigators that it appeared the shots targeted the sound of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (758+ words) The true nature of hastily erected ICE detention facilities — especially the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” erected in Trump buddy Ron DeSantis’s home state — was called out by Mike Masnick shortly after its debut last June: There’s no way to look at…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (715+ words) When federal inspectors announced on September 11 what they’d known since January about conditions for prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz, they said the delay in their report had been caused by “a lapse in appropriation.” They didn’t use the right word. Conditions…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1195+ words) Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were subjected to inhumane daily conditions, an inspection of the facility found. The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General conducted a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1340+ words) For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of Florida swampland, the former detainee alleged. Suárez, 59, told José…...