Tag: ACLU
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
