Guest AuthorMarch 17, 2021
7min4984
Don’t buy the myths that FRS is just fine. It is not.
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Guest AuthorMarch 17, 2021
Jacob OglesMay 3, 2020
5min316
One link scrutinizes basement 'performances' by Chris Cuomo and Joe Biden.
Jacob OglesApril 28, 2019
4min284
Legislation lets state designate eligible phone providers.
Guest AuthorApril 20, 2017
7min833
William Forrester was 52-years-old, on disability, and suffering from numerous health problems when he was arrested in 2008. His offense? A pharmacist filled a fraudulent prescription for 120 oxycodone pills. When he came back the next month to have another prescription filled, which was also fraudulent, the pharmacist called the doctor, who told her he […]
Guest AuthorApril 18, 2017
7min801
Since 1970, the size of Florida’s prison population has grown by more than 1,000 percent, and its corrections system is now the third largest in the nation. Under the state’s rigid mandatory minimum laws, more people are being sent to prison for a longer amount of time, with an annual average cost of $20,553 per […]
Erin ClarkApril 18, 2017
13min288
With last year’s styrofoam ban upheld by a Miami-Dade judge, the city of Coral Gables, south Florida’s “City Beautiful,” is stepping into the eco-regulation fray with another initiative. This time, to “ban the bag.” At a March 14 meeting, the Coral Gables City Council gave initial approval to an ordinance prohibiting plastic bags being used […]
William PatrickMarch 24, 2017
6min464
In 2008, an Orange County, Florida, judge sentenced William Forrester to 15 years in prison for 15.6 grams of oxycodone, or about 30 pills. Forrester was on disability insurance and had a lung surgically removed due to cancer not long before his arrest, according to court documents. But possession of the oxycodone, combined with a […]
Mitch PerryJune 22, 2015
6min257
Criminal justice reform has become a hot topic this year, and Rand Paul isn’t the only Republican talking about such efforts on the GOP campaign trail. Crime rates have been dropping across the country over the past decade, but in Florida the state’s incarceration rates have continued to rise. The ACLU will soon pick three […]