Judge: Florida’s voter restoration process unconstitutional
In a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has found Florida’s scheme for restoring the voting […]
In a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has found Florida’s scheme for restoring the voting […]
About $5 million separates the Florida House and Senate’s criminal justice budget. But, while there are some differences, there are
The family of Darren Rainey, the 50-year-old schizophrenic inmate whose barbaric shower death led to sweeping reforms in the Florida
For the first time in Florida history, voters will decide whether to grant the right to vote to an estimated
More inmates died in Florida prisons last year than in any other year on record, leaving the state scrambling to
When a series of disturbances and insurrections erupted across state prisons nationwide in 2016 on the anniversary of New York’s
In the eight years since its publication, “The New Jim Crow,” a book by Michelle Alexander that explores the phenomenon
Lake Butler Work Camp, Fla., Jan. 16 — There is one place in the U.S. where slavery is still constitutionally
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) — Protesters gathered at the Florida Department of Corrections headquarters on Calhoun Street in downtown Tallahassee. The
Prisoners in Florida are planning to go on strike on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest “prison slavery” and
FLORIDA PRISONERS ARE calling for a general strike to start this week — marking the third mass action over the course of a year
Inmates across eight Florida prisons have announced a protest in the form of a work stoppage dubbed Operation PUSH set
Yet another bungle by the state’s Department of Corrections may cost taxpayers millions of dollars this year. Florida is being
In a corner of her house in Sparta in southwest Missouri, Jymie Jimerson has set up a kind of shrine.
Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida has entered a Preliminary Injunction requiring the Florida Department of Corrections
Pascual Diaz-Plasencia was arrested on misdemeanor drug possession charges June 29, 2012, after police caught him with less than 20 grams of
The Florida Justice Institute, Inc. (FJI) and the law firm Freidin Brown, P.A., have reached a settlement with Miami-Dade County
A recent federal court order in Florida may foreshadow a local judicial decision on whether thousands of Tennessee inmates affected by