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The mental health coordinator at the Pasco County jail sees incarceration as something more than punishment. She sees it as a chance for rehabilitation.
NEW PORT RICHEY — With too many inmates and not enough space in the Pasco County Detention Center, county officials have had to farm detainees out to other jurisdictions for several years. Work ...
Crime Pasco County elementary school teacher arrested on child porn possession charges Watson was transported to the Pasco County Jail where he was booked on a $120,000 bond.
Pasco County inmates exposed to HIV after jail nurse re-used insulin vials Inmates are suing after receiving contaminated insulin.
Commissioners in Pasco County voted on Tuesday to take over management of the county jail in Pasco, Florida from the Pasco Sheriff's Office.
An officer with the Florida Department of Corrections has resigned in the wake of the recent escape of an inmate from work detail in Pasco County.
Video voyeurism can land you in jail, but in one local case the exposed individual was already behind bars, the viewer had no idea where the lens was aimed and the county set up the camera.
In a story June 18 about a new mental health unit at a Florida sheriff’s office, The Associated Press reported erroneously that about 500 people had been involuntarily hospitalized last year in ...
Inmates at the Pasco County Jail are learning new sets of skill to keep them out of jail after they are released.
In newly released video from inside Pasco County Jail, deputies are seen asking a combative inmate to allow them to handcuff him before conducting a cell inspection.