Corbin BoliesNovember 4, 2021
Exclusive: Ex-felon who won Republican CD20 Primary never applied for right to hold political office
12min2533
'I guess I trusted the system a little too much.'
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Corbin BoliesNovember 4, 2021
A.G. GancarskiNovember 14, 2019
2min466
Performance issues continue, lawmakers want answers.
Ana CeballosApril 30, 2019
4min328
The idea is for more cases to be reviewed.
Danny McAuliffeApril 24, 2019
4min249
The money would be dedicated toward checking whether felons have completed their sentences.
Guest AuthorSeptember 17, 2018
6min575
Florida’s 13 million voters have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help convicted felons who have paid their debt to society earn the right to vote, and to a second chance. Called the “Voting Restoration Amendment,” a proposed constitutional amendment will grant most of the 1.7 million convicted felons the right to vote and help select their […]
Drew WilsonMay 2, 2018
5min2412
Nearly three quarters of Florida voters say they would support a ballot amendment to restore voting rights to ex-cons, a new poll found. The survey, conducted jointly by North Star Opinion Research and EMC Research, found that supermajority support for the measure regardless of the political party. “This amendment has the strong bipartisan support needed […]
Scott PowersNovember 20, 2017
8min301
There is no pardon for the Groveland Four. At least not yet, and possibly not in the foreseeable future, despite much celebration last spring that they deserved and should receive posthumous pardons. The Groveland Four are the young, black men who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in rural Lake County in 1949. […]
Jim RosicaOctober 6, 2016
4min343
A proposed Florida Commission on Ethics opinion says Tena Pate, former chair of the state’s parole panel, is not subject to the state’s two-year lobbying ban on high-level employees. A staff-written advisory opinion, released Friday, will be considered for approval at the commission’s Oct. 21 meeting. Pate chaired the Florida Commission on Offender Review, formerly known as the Florida Parole […]
Jim RosicaJuly 19, 2016
2min254
Molly Kellogg-Schmauch, formerly communications director for the Florida Commission on Offender Review, is now with the Florida Court Clerks and Comptrollers association. As of June 22, Kellogg-Schmauch has taken the new role of chief communications officer for the group representing the state’s clerks of courts. She remains in Tallahassee. She has 15 years of communications experience and has […]
Phil AmmannJuly 14, 2016
6min394
A man known as the “prison Houdini” for his numerous escapes, was given a path to freedom Thursday, 36 years after being convicted of stealing mechanic tools his father bequeathed to him. Florida’s parole board voted 2-1 to set a July 26 release date, choosing to get Mark DeFriest help for mental health issues and […]