Thanks to decades of tough-on-crime policies, Florida now has the third-largest prison population in the United States — nearly 100,000 people, including more minors than any other state. Florida requires people to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences and has abolished parole. All this costs taxpayers $2.4 billion per year.
“There’s a general feeling that something has to be done. Locking someone in a cage is a severe penalty, and I think slowly people are realizing this. After the war on drugs in the ’90s — we’re swinging back from that, like a pendulum.”
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, Florida prosecutes more children in adult courts than any other state in the country — more than 7,600 minors since 2011, most for nonviolent offenses.
“These kids are even as young as — check this out — 10 years old,” said Bush, who has filed a bill to modify the process.
Scott McCoy, senior policy counsel in Florida for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said efforts to reform direct file failed in the past in part because the bills proposed too many changes in a single bill.
Sounds like Florida needs to put some much more intelligent people and people with integrity in their government.
That will NEVER EVER HAPPEN…it is a complete system off lining the pockets of attorneys who are in close relationships with the judges and prosecutors…most criminal defense attorneys pre-negotiate their basket of clients-robbing ‘peter to pay paul’ SYNDROME!….it is a closed system….EVERYONE passes the jar of vaseline around each other….they are all a bunch of SICK people….one day it will all get exposed properly and without prejudice!
Florida is a STATE THAT MANUFACTURES CRIME IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY every donut eating overweight SHERIFF etc’s existence…it is a sick sick way to live..is it not?…when they go to gates of ST Peter, I am confident that ALL OF D’EM will GO to HELL or Purgatory!
I am sure of that!
Make it a great weekend!
FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!
At the FLA DOC’s Lake Butler Reception Center…this is one of the clearing houses for Newbie or returning inmates into their system …at this Correctional Facility, they had at the time 2 GIT Dorms(Dorms that house Juvenile Inmates)…they housed juvenile inmates…One night I was being escorted by a CO and he said, ‘Chef’, ‘goin’ to stop by here and see d’em fights’…so He re-cuffed me up and I witnessed young boys ‘boxing’ each other….they were fighting each other…CO’s were betting with CASH on certain GITs…..pretty sick culture within the Florida Department of Corrections…it is still happening today!
They was doing that at F.S.P Close Management Unit letting them fight in the the stairwell while we coming from dog cages (our an hour in the sun).
I was 19 years old coming out of Orange County. It was Life in prison or plead deal of 20 years having two consective sentences
My comments on the source article:
No politician thinks beyond the next election, and each tries to outdo the other on “tough on crime” bills, especially in Florida and particularly in sex offense legislation, normally spearheaded by Senator Lauren Book, mouthpiece daughter of uber-lobbyist Ron Book and self-proclaimed child safety advocate (though curiously silent in the aftermath of the February 2018 Parkland High School massacre in her own district, not at all related to her father being the NRA’s registered lobbyist in Florida, I’m sure).
Florida boasts over 70,000 sex offense registrants, of which over 40,000 are either not in the state, incarcerated, or dead. Don’t know the racial or age breakdown, but pretty certain a significant number of them are black and/or were juveniles at the time of offense (among them, child porn charges for sending nude selfies to their peers). Notice also that sex offenses are always excluded from any bill or proposal seeking to help or alleviate the burdens placed on the state or felons in general regarding rehabilitation.
These are your leaders, Florida. You keep voting them in so it’s pretty hypocritical to complain about what they do.
When I was in prison I met kids who were like 22 or 23 years old in there who got sent there when they were 18 or 19. And this is ADULT prison. So they were basically opened up and vulnerable to these adults their whole time in prison. That’s just genius on floriduhs part. They dont give a shit. This state is nothing but a greedy cesspool of stupidity.
I found this interesting until I saw reference to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Then to article became somewhat questionable.