Jim RosicaJuly 20, 2019
6min972
"This is an incredible and deserving outcome."
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Sam Culpepper "would be brought in when a prison was experiencing disruption."
Florence SnyderFebruary 22, 2016
5min292
If it weren’t so sick, twisted and perverted, the “security concerns” exemptions to Florida’s public records law would be downright hilarious. Consider the case of Steven Zerbe‘s mom. Bonnie’s Zerbe‘s 37-year-old son was sent to Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in 2013. He soon began to tell prison officials, and his mother, that he had been […]
Florence SnyderMarch 4, 20155min178
If you don’t live in Miami Gardens, you probably think its police department is no concern of yours. Ira Glass thinks otherwise. The host of This American Life used his highly respected program to bring the Miami Herald’s reporting on the out-of-control police department to his international audience of public radio listeners. The tale was first told […]
Florence SnyderFebruary 24, 2015
5min177
If you don’t live in Miami Gardens, you probably think its police department is no concern of yours. Ira Glass thinks otherwise. This week, the host of This American Life used his highly respected program to bring the Miami Herald’s reporting on the out-of-control police department to his international audience of public radio listeners. The tale was […]
Martin DyckmanJanuary 20, 2015
8min213
Barely a month after Reubin Askew became governor in 1971, inmates at Florida’s largest prison began a series of sit-down and hunger strikes. Their keepers used excessive force – birdshot, bullets and beatings – to restore control. Askew took immediate ownership of the situation. He sent two aides to Raiford to investigate and overruled the […]
Martin DyckmanJanuary 20, 20159min207
Barely a month after Reubin Askew became governor in 1971, inmates at Florida’s largest prison began a series of sit-down and hunger strikes. Their keepers used excessive force – birdshot, bullets and beatings – to restore control. Askew took immediate ownership of the situation. He sent two aides to Raiford to investigate and overruled the […]