Anne GeggisDecember 23, 2022
5min0
Afghan Special Forces Commando Abdul Wasi Safi ihas faced terrible choices as a result of helping U.S. forces, the Congressmen say.
Tag: parole
Anne GeggisDecember 23, 2022
Staff ReportsJune 11, 2022
55min0
A conservative group wants Florida to go back to 1983 — to bring back parole and reduce recidivism.
Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2019
12min449
The question is about the specific ballot language voted on and how voters interpreted its terms.
Scott PowersApril 25, 2018
12min486
A year ago, the families of the “Groveland Four” fought back tears, joined with Florida Legislature leaders, and watching as lawmakers sought to do what they could to right a 68-year-old injustice from the Jim Crow era in Florida. On April 18, 2017, the Florida House of Representatives approved CS/HCR 631 by 117-0. On April […]
Associated PressOctober 1, 2017
2min287
A Nevada parole official said O.J. Simpson plans to live at a home in the Las Vegas area for the foreseeable future. State Parole and Probation Capt. Shawn Arruti told The Associated Press on Sunday that the former football hero and celebrity criminal defendant has one approved residential plan, and it doesn’t currently include a move […]
Jim RosicaSeptember 29, 2017
4min546
O.J. Simpson won’t return to Florida if Pam Bondi has any sway over his homecoming. The state’s Republican attorney general sent a 2-1/2 page letter to Corrections Secretary Julie Jones on Friday, saying she objected to Simpson’s return on behalf of the state. He previously lived in Kendall, Miami-Dade County. Simpson’s lawyer also Friday said the […]
Guest AuthorMay 7, 20155min375
With state prison and criminal justice reforms in the news, state inmates, their families and supporters, lawyers, and other advocates should be aware of early-release options and strategies. Florida has nearly 101,000 inmates in 56 major state prisons and numerous annexes and work camps. A clemency commutation of sentence and parole are alternate paths to […]
Martin DyckmanMarch 9, 20158min156
One of the truthful boasts in Gov. Rick Scott’s curiously brief speech to the Legislature last week may not have been good news to all who heard it. “We are at a 43-year low in our crime rate,” he said. In fact, by 2013 crime in Florida had fallen 60 percent from its high point […]
Martin DyckmanDecember 12, 2013
7min291
At Tallahassee, in 1959, four hoodlums accosted a young couple at gunpoint and took the woman away to rape her seven times. The criminals were white. The victims, students at Florida A & M University, were black. The perpetrators were tried, convicted and imprisoned. This made news worldwide; whites who raped blacks were rarely arrested, […]