Stephanie Ragusa believes she is being harassed by the staff at the Hillsborough County jail, where she is being held without bond on charges of molesting two teenagers at the school where she taught. ...more

March 4, 2009

A detention sergeant at the Pinellas County Jail was demoted to the rank of deputy after he took a television out of an inmate pod to punish unruly inmates, then misrepresented the damage he had done to the television in the process, according to memorandums released this morning by the sheriff's office. Former Sgt. Shane Stradley was also suspended for 80 hours, the memorandums say. ...more

February 26, 2009

A gym, barber shop and planters of plastic flowers: Welcome to the gentler face of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. ...more

February 22, 2009

A massive manhunt is on for six inmates who escaped this evening from a state prison on DeSoto County. ...more

January 7, 2009

A paperwork error gave Lawrence Campanello a few hours of freedom this morning, even though he still had 60 days remaining on his jail sentence. ...more

December 31, 2008

Police are looking for the killer of a popular Lakeland resident whose body was found outside his auto body shop Monday night. ...more

December 31, 2008

A detention deputy found a 5-inch shank in the jail cell today of Kendrick Morris, who was charged in April with the beating and rape of a high school student at the Bloomingdale library. "We believe the weapon came from plastic broken off a food tray," Col. Jim Previtera said. ...more

December 30, 2008

TAMPA – Defense attorneys for a 27-year-old Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists are asking a judge to sentence him to eight years in prison, not the 15-year-term being requested by prosecutors. ...more

December 17, 2008

Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown, 58, a radio engineer, recalled a time in Naples when he was hired to be a "prisoner" at the local jail. Green, 48, a theater professor at the University of South Florida, told of how her life has changed since her 78-year-old mother fell, injured her shoulder and was diagnosed with dementia. ...more

December 13, 2008

TAMPA -- Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown and Green today became the first two Tampa area residents to record 40-minute personal accounts for the StoryCorps project. This nonprofit effort to collect personal oral history has set up a mobile recording studio in Ybor City. ...more

December 11, 2008