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Florida bill blocking local workplace heat protection standards is now in DeSantis' hands
The bill is what’s known as a 'preemption' measure, meaning it would take authority away from local governments
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Labor, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, workplace heat protection standards, Florida heat protection, Florida jobs, Florida labor
DeSantis administration wants to assign another 100 National Guards to Florida prisons
The Department of Corrections submitted a request to a legislative committee seeking $23.5 million to offset salaries for additional guards
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron Desantis, National Guard, Florida prisons, Department of Corrections
Florida prisons could use winter months to install AC in prisons — if lawmakers allow it
Soaring temperatures are a factor in high guard staff turnover as well as medically dangerous for the aging prisoner population.
By Trimmel Gomes, Florida News Connection
Tags: Florida News, Health, Florida prisons, air conditioning in prisons, Florida jails, Rep. Angie Nixon, Florida Cares Charity, prison conditions, Florida Department of Corrections, Florida prison guards
Florida needs to spend over $2 billion to address 'perfect storm' of issues in prisons, report says
Leaking roofs, corroded doors, broken windows and crumbling stucco were among the facility problems identified
Tags: Florida News, Florida prisons, Florida correction facilities, prison report
Florida reports first unemployment increase of 2023
The department estimated 295,000 Floridians were out of work in mid-July, up 5,000 from a month earlier
By Jim Turner, the News Service of Florida
Tags: Orlando Area News, Labor, Florida unemployment rate, Florida jobs, Florida labor, Ron DeSantis, job market, unemployment increase
Florida inmates grapple with ‘oppressive’ heat in un-air-conditioned prisons
Temperatures over 100 degrees last month put the thermometer above 115 inside some Florida prisons
Tags: Florida News, Florida prisons, Florida inmates, Florida heat, heat wave
Florida Virtual School pauses hiring amid drop in course completion numbers
The completion of courses is a key metric for the school, which only gets paid if students finish online classes
By Ryan Dailey, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Education, Florida virtual school, Florida jobs, Florida education, online education, online classes
Florida Agriculture Commissioner says farmers will face 'challenges,' amid new immigration legislation
The law requires businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to check employees’ immigration status
Tags: Florida News, Florida immigration, immigration laws, Ron DeSantis, Florida jobs, Florida agriculture, Florida tourism, Florida farming
Florida man accused of smuggling drugs into jail inside his prosthetic leg
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida Man, Largo, Florida, Pinellas County, jails, smuggling, weird
Surge in Florida inmates with COVID-19 spurs calls for help
By Ana Ceballos, News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Orlando, coronavirus, COVID-19, Orange County Florida, public health, safety, reopening, Ron DeSantis, prisons, jails, corrections
Florida inmates at private prison test positive for coronavirus
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida prisons, COVID19, coronavirus
Florida lawmakers confronted with prison problems
Tags: Bloggytown, florida prisons, ron desantis, bill galvano, Mark Inch
Lawsuits aim to stop Florida's use of solitary confinement for children, but state agencies are pushing back
Tags: Bloggytown, florida, prisons, justice, crime, jails, prisons, reform, sentences, solitary confinement, Florida House, Florida Senate, children, minors
Florida teens file federal lawsuit against Department of Juvenile Justice over use of solitary confinement
By NSF
Tags: Bloggytown, Solitary confinement, DJJ, juvenile justice, torture, Florida prisons
Florida prison inmate took a break to 'dance around' after shanking guard, says Department of Corrections
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida Department of Corrections, Florida prisons, inmates, Apalachee Correctional Institution
As the 2019 hurricane season gets underway, Florida prisons struggle to prepare
By Ana Ceballos, NSF
Tags: Bloggytown, florida prisons, florida storms, hurricane season, weather preparedness, shelter in place
18-year-olds can now get jobs as prison guards in Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, jails, florida prisons, florida correctional facilities, florida jobs, drone technology
Florida wants to deputize state prison guards as ICE agents
Tags: Bloggytown, florida prisons, florida ICE, florida immigration
Federal judge says Florida prison system was 'deliberately indifferent' toward inmates with hepatitis C
Tags: Bloggytown, florida prisons
Florida's incarcerated women face significant struggles to get menstrual products
Tags: Bloggytown, florida menstrual products, florida prisons, incarcerated women
Florida seeks to squash First Amendment case involving a banned magazine for inmates
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Prison Legal News, Pam Bondi, First Amendment, Florida prisons
Andrew Gillum's claim that Florida's economy is propped up by low-wage jobs is 'half true'
By Xander Peters
Tags: Bloggytown, Politifact, Andrew Gillum, Florida jobs, Rick Scott
Banned magazine takes First Amendment fight against Florida prison system to US Supreme Court
Tags: Bloggytown, prison legal news, florida prisons, us supreme court
Proposed visitation cuts at Florida prisons spark outcry from families
Trump's tariffs on China could force Florida to cut 7,000 jobs annually, says study
Tags: Bloggytown, Trump tariffs, Florida jobs, President Donald Trump, Florida agriculture
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Orlando restaurants burned rubber at the 2024 Michelin Guide ceremony
By Faiyaz Kara
The Hammered Lamb faces business hit after Orlando Sentinel shares incorrect health inspection data
By Chloe Greenberg
Florida lobbyists leaned on pols to get ban on local heat safety and wage laws across the finish line, records show
By McKenna Schueler
Iconic Motown diva Diana Ross has come a long way from the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit, and now she's putting her…
By Colin Wolf
Atmospheric indie-rockers Beach Fossils enthralled a loyal crowd at the House of Blues in Orlando. [content-1]
By Grayson Keglovic
The castle-like remains of an eccentric scholar's unfinished artist sanctuary is now on the market in Florida. Located in Monticello, near Tallahassee,…
It was a gorgeous day of "music, art and freedom" when the Florida Groves Festival returned to the Orlando Amphitheater at the…
By Matt Keller Lehman
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