TAMPA - The state Department of Corrections today released letters it sent last month to a Tallahassee lawyer and his associate, a former corrections department staff member, saying the men used "overt and covert actions to improperly influence" inmate transfers. The department became suspicious months ago that transfers were influenced by money or favors offered to nine of its employees at corrections headquarters in Tallahassee. ...more

October 9, 2007

TAMPA - The state Department of Corrections will demote three high ranking officials and has taken steps to suspend them without pay because of how they allowed hundreds of inmates to transfer between prisons throughout Florida, Corrections Secretary James McDonough said today. ...more

October 8, 2007

Read History On GOP Regarding 'Blacks Must Wake Up To GOP Tactics' (Other Views, Sept. 28): ...more

October 5, 2007

A top homeland security lawmaker has called for an investigation into possible cyber attacks on computer systems at the Homeland Security Department. ...more

September 25, 2007