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2 Oct 2011, 6:21 pm by constitutional lawblogger
In an order Friday, Judge Jackie Fulord held unconstitutional a statute ordering the privatization of 29 South Florida prisons in Baiardi v. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 4:00 pm by David Shapiro, National Prison Project
The plan would have turned over nearly 30 Florida correctional facilities to private, for-profit companies, which have would run the prisons under contract with the state. [read post]
6 May 2021, 11:53 am by Ryan J. Farrick
The United States government has settled a federal lawsuit with 15 women who said that correctional officers at a Florida prison sexually abused them without repercussion. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, (SD FL, Dec. 6, 2013), the court held that the United States was likely to prevail on the merits of its claim that Florida's religious diet policy violates RLUIPA.The court held that Florida had not shown a compelling interest in a blanket denial of kosher food to prisoners-- in part because the state argued somewhat inconsistently that it was committed to providing kosher meals to all eligible… [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 5:15 am by Howard Friedman
JTA reported yesterday that Florida Governor Charlie Crist has recently signed a directive ordering the state Department of Corrections to provide a kosher food plan for state prison inmates. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 12:59 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
  Prisoners held in solitary confinement in Florida state prisons can be there for months on end. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 2:41 pm
If you or a loved one are about to be convicted of a crime or have already received a sentence and are facing time in prison, there is a lot you will need to know to survive going to prison in Florida, and here we cover FAQs about life in a Florida state prison. [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 9:10 am by David J. Halberg, Esq.
Florida state prison officials investigated more than 160 reports of sexual abuse and assault over the course of four years. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Now that the Justice Department has won a preliminary injunction from a federal district court ordering Florida prisons to make kosher meals available by July 1 to all prisoners with a sincere religious basis for keeping kosher (see prior posting), Muslim groups are asking for Halal meals as well. [read post]
17 May 2010, 2:22 pm by David M. Trontz
As time passes on, the prison population in the State of Florida continues to grow. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 7:53 am by Cory Doctorow
The Florida Department of Corrections is one of the many state prison systems that rely on private contractors to supply electronic messaging and access to electronic music files and books for prisoners. [read post]
8 Aug 2022, 12:08 am by Paul Caron
WCTV, Magbanua Transported to State Prison, Begins Serving Life Sentence in Dan Markel’s Murder: Florida Department of Corrections records show that Katherine Magbanua has now been booked into state prison to begin serving a life sentence in the murder of FSU professor Dan Markel. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 11:02 am by David J. Halberg, Esq.
Existing law states prison staff-prisoner sexual relations is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year in prison, unless the staffer uses threats or overt force. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:39 am by Hanlon Law, PA
In 2015, Defendant entered into an agreement with Florida state prosecutors after once again violating the terms of his probation. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Florida recently announced they will close seven prisons and four work camps under a gubernatorial plan from Republican Rick Scott that's being tarred by Democrats and prison-guard unions as soft on crime and evidence of an "extreme Tea Party agenda. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 7:46 am by Associated Press
The post AP sources: Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison appeared first on Maryland Daily Record. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 2:36 pm by Andrew M. Ironside
Florida DOC secretary Michael Crews has requested an independent audit by The Association of State Corrections Administrators into the use of force by officers in the state's prisons, according to The Miami Herald's Julie Brown. [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Edna Lorraine Watkins, the owner of Homecare Unlimited, LLC, in Jacksonville, Florida, has been sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding Medicaid, according to the Florida Office of the Attorney General (AG). [read post]