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Mitch PerryMarch 13, 2017

A raft of bills that would reform Florida’s criminal justice system sponsored by St. Petersburg Republican Jeff Brandes were approved by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee Monday. That included legislation that would create a criminal justice task force (SB 458) consisting of 27 members that would take a “holistic” review of the state’s criminal justice system, including (but […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 10, 2016

It’s been four years since the media broke the news of Darren Rainey’s brutal mistreatment at the Dade Correctional Institution in Miami. The 50-year-old Rainey was forced into a scalding shower by prison guards angry that the schizophrenic inmate defecated and threw feces at them and around his 13-by-8-foot cell. In retaliation, they forced Rainey […]

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Criminal justice reform task force and other reform bills advance in Florida Senate

Chris Timmons: Fixing Florida’s prisons will take money, determination

Florida politics had 11 questions before federal qualifying week. Here are the answers.