For Many Florida Ex-Cons, Voting Booth Is Off-Limits
For Many Florida Ex-Cons, Voting Booth Is Off-Limits
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Four times each year in the state capital, Tallahassee, Florida Gov. Rick Scott sits in a windowless basement room full of convicted felons. Robbers, sexual molesters, drunk drivers, drug traffickers and others walk to the lectern, one by one, to ask …
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'Smart justice' effort could be revived in Legislature
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“Smart justice” proponents have tried, for instance, to divert drug felons into treatment programs after they've served parts of their sentences. State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Fort Lauderdale) repeatedly sponsored a measure that would have ended …
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Son held in murder of mom, boyfriend at Oldsmar home
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Shibata and her boyfriend, Kelley Allen, also 49, a popular swim coach, were so concerned for their safety they removed all the knives from their home before Bishop returned in September from a 10-month stint at a rehab center. Startled by her son that …
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The Seed Indeed- Part 1 – The Seed was an experimental drug rehabilitation program located in Broward and Dade county Florida in the 70’s. The Seed was operated by Art Barker who was a recovering alcoholic and failed stand up comedian. Using some of the basic principles of AA and incorporating peer pressure group-cult techniques, he manipulated many parents into submitting their children into a program with no proven results. Run by former drug addicts and court ordered felons, the program quickly lost its financial support when the exaggerated claims of success were made public and questions about the programs methods came under scrutiny. The Seed is believed to be one of the predecessor for various other gulag type drug rehabs which abuse and mistreat young children all around the country including Straight,Inc.,Kids helping Kids and Pathway Family Center, which are all shut down The video is archived television footage provided by Florida Moving Image Archives Miami-Dade Public Library.