By Deirdra Funchson
JJIE
Whether or not to let certain inmates out of prison is a decision that falls to the Florida Commission on Offender Review (FCOR), consisting of three commissioners appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After 44 years in office, and a record pockmarked by several a few of the nation’s most infamous miscarriages of justice, Broward State Attorney Michael J. Satz has established a Conviction Review Unit.
By Claire Goforth
After spending more than 42 years in prison for murder and attempted murder, Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams recently took their place in Florida history as the first people to be exonerated by a prosecutor-led effort.
By Claire Goforth
The widespread practice of requiring bond on the vast majority of cases has led to what many describe as “wealth-based detention” based on means, rather than danger to the community or likelihood of fleeing.
By Deirdra Funcheon
Thanks to decades of tough-on-crime policies, Florida now has the third-largest prison population in the United States — nearly 100,000 people, including more minors than any other state. Florida requires people to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences and has abolished parole. All this costs taxpayers $2.4 billion per year.
By Noreen Marcus and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The secret deal that lawyers for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein struck with then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta a decade ago did much more than protect the disgraced billionaire from an extended prison term. It also shut down a South Florida grand jury probe that could have reached to others in Epstein’s international sex-trafficking ring.
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