Summer in Miami-Dade County brings beach days, barbecues and a welcome influx of visitors. It’s also a time when law enforcement agencies nationwide typically see an uptick in violent crime, often ...

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...

Deputies spotted the suspect driving and yelling out the window before he turned into a parking lot, got in the passenger seat and faked being sleep.

Miami-Dade Corrections Chief Omar Fernandez was arrested on DUI charges and placed on leave pending investigation.

Omar Fernandez, the civilian division chief of the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, was drunk when he ...

A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested on a driving under the influence charge in the Florida Keys Monday night.

Omar Fernandez, the Civilian Division Chief for the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, was arrested ...

A high-ranking corrections officer has found himself on the wrong side of the law after, troopers said, he was driving<a ...

Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ...

Three Miami-Dade families were once again struck with tragedy when county officials refused to answer how the man accused of causing a deadly triple crash on West Flagler was deported to Honduras and ...

A federal judge has rejected a request by Florida corrections officials to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that the state has violated inmates' rights due to hot conditions at a prison in ...

A Miami man has been arrested on DUI manslaughter and other charges in connection with an alleged high-speed crash that killed his 14-year-old passenger last month.