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There are challenges to the Conservation Department’s failure to prioritise endangered marine species, using the excuse of Covid control and costs management.

ORLANDO, Fla. — On a hot Saturday morning, prison reform advocates and state leaders rallied at Lake Eola Park to bring attention to the thousands of prisoners in Florida who are spending record-breaking summer temperatures without access to air conditioning.

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Prison reform activists worry the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a federal right to abortion, could lead to more pregnant people behind bars — a scenario some lawmakers in Florida have been trying to curb for years.