Author: FAC Contributor #3

There are two upcoming events in South Florida you should be aware of. We encourage our members in the area to attend and network with others interested in civil liberties and help spread our message. If there is an event in your area that you would like us to promote, please forward the information to [email protected].   VOTE Restoration Event:

SOURCE: Wired For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it. … Prisons are notoriously low-tech places. But urged on by privately owned companies, like JPay, facilities across the country are adding e-messaging, a rudimentary form of email that remains disconnected from

The following letter was sent to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. Sheriff Israel’s son, Brett, was accused of committing a sexual assault against another student in his High School. The event took place 4 years ago. Brett has not been charged and an investigation into whether there was a cover-up is pending. Our hope is that the Sheriff might realize

In one Pennsylvania county, more than three times as many people on the registry were charged in 2016 with failing to follow registry requirements than were charged with a new sexual offense In January 2015, Franklin Barrick packed his bags and moved out of his home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, leaving his wife behind. For most, the end of a marriage

Source: Mother Jones The country’s biggest private prison company may have run afoul of campaign finance law with a donation to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign for US Senate, a campaign finance watchdog says. GEO Group, which is based in Boca Raton, Florida, operates prisons and immigrant detention centers across the country. The company and its subsidiaries have received $560

Effective August 28, 2018, Missouri will undergo some changes to it’s sex offender registry. For the most part, these changes are good, common sense changes that will afford some persons required to register the opportunity to be removed. Among other changes; the Bill (SB 655) that was signed into law by the Governor last month: Clarified that the requirement that