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Florida’s troubled prison system wants to shut down lawyer-to-inmate phone calls that can reveal cruel and illegal conditions

By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida prison officials want to change a rule to keep lawyers from talking to inmates who may need their help; the new rule would place inmates who could be defense witnesses completely out of earshot.
Sep 16, 2021 5:30 AM

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Welcome to ‘Floridastan’: Trying to out-Texas Texas, DeSantis and GOP lawmakers hand vigilantes swords and shields

By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican legislators are over performing for their favorite constituents: rightist culture warriors seeking legal support in their struggle against people, ideas and policies they fear and detest.
Aug 28, 2019 8:57 AM

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Florida’s ‘cash register justice’ leaves many felons still ineligible to vote despite passage of Amendment 4

By Claire Goforth
Ten years ago, Rosemary McCoy never would have imagined that today she’d be in a Jacksonville library, tears streaming down her face, as she tells a stranger how it feels to be disenfranchised.
Oct 2, 2013 6:09 AM

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Florida prison officials didn’t ask, companies didn’t tell about hundreds of malpractice cases

By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The Florida Department of Corrections awarded a five-year, $1.2 billion contract to provide medical care for thousands of state prisoners in north and central Florida to Corizon, a Tennessee company that was sued 660 times for malpractice in the last five years.
Feb 26, 2013 6:21 AM

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No charges in Coconut Creek police misconduct case; prosecutors OK with enhanced interrogation

By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
A Coconut Creek police officer who held an activated Taser stun gun at the ready while questioning a frightened 19-year-old theft suspect he made stand in a bathtub won’t be charged with a crime. Civil rights advocates call the police interrogation of Blake L. Robinson a disturbing example of police misconduct akin to torture. But Broward corruption prosecutors did not see it that way.

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Tag: ACLU

Florida’s troubled prison system wants to shut down lawyer-to-inmate phone calls that can reveal cruel and illegal conditions

Welcome to ‘Floridastan’: Trying to out-Texas Texas, DeSantis and GOP lawmakers hand vigilantes swords and shields

Florida’s ‘cash register justice’ leaves many felons still ineligible to vote despite passage of Amendment 4

Florida prison officials didn’t ask, companies didn’t tell about hundreds of malpractice cases

No charges in Coconut Creek police misconduct case; prosecutors OK with enhanced interrogation

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