The agency says the statewide corrections officer vacancy rate sits at around 24 percent. They tell me Santa Rosa Correctional is less than half that -- sitting at or above ten percent.

Three inmates were found dead in the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution. On Friday, March 9, inmate Ambrose Santos was found dead, on Saturday Jim Desir died, and on Thursday another inmate died.

On Oct. 23 an inmate assaulted “multiple officers” by shoving them, state records show, and on Oct. 27 an officer at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution was kicked and injured, the state ...

Four Santa Rosa Correctional Institution inmates have been found guilty of carrying out a New Year's Day attack on multiple guards. The jury returned its verdict around 4 p.m. Thursday and found ...

Century Correctional Institution, Santa Rosa Correctional Institution and Annex, and Blackwater River Correctional Institution investigated a total of 23 inmate deaths in 2017.

The Florida Department of Corrections confirms Derrick Tyrone Daniels, 39, died at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution. Daniels’ cause of death has not yet been released.

On Jan. 19, 2021, Tijuan Isaac charged a guard at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution with a homemade weapon while the guard was inspecting a cell immediately adjacent to Isaac’s cell ...

The latest cases involve employees who work at Community Corrections Region 2, a probation office in Union County, Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Santa Rosa County, Apalachee Correctional ...

The walk-out at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution comes roughly two months after the Times-Union reported accounts from about a dozen whistleblowers of horrific conditions at the prison ...

Florida’s secretary of the Department of Corrections, Mark Inch. During his Santa Rosa visit, he said 17 staffers watched as he spoke with inmates.

"On Jan. 19, 2021, a guard at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution was inspecting the cell immediately adjacent to the defendant's cell," the press release said.

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) — A months long investigation leads to the arrest of several employees at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution.