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Florence SnyderOctober 10, 2017

Eleven days ago, Gov. Rick Scott dropped a news release proposing a 10 percent pay raise for juvenile detention and juvenile probation officers. Today, the Miami Herald dropped its comprehensive carpet bomb on Scott’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). Maybe it’s a coincidence. The Herald’s book-length investigative series is a stomach-churning compilation of examples of […]

Florence SnyderApril 24, 2017

After a lifetime of drawing the short straw, Keishan Ross may finally have caught a break. The 17-year-old Broward County boy has an IQ that tops out at 61, on a good day. By age 3, his teachers knew that he was severely limited in his capacity to learn. He suffers from mental illnesses that […]

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