Ordinance zones sex offenders out of most of Pasco County

A new Pasco County ordinance further limits where registered sex offenders can live.  Attorney Patrick Leduc is very critical of the new ordinance. He says it borders on unconsitutional. “What we are really trying to say is we don’t want these people living among us,” Leduc explained. Communities everywhere have rules about where convicted sex offenders can live. But the

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Thank you, David and June Trone, Total Wine co-founder!

David Trone, Total Wine & More co-founder and his wife, June, have donated $15 million to the American Civil Liberties Union to expand a campaign to cut prison populations and promote private initiatives to rehabilitate and employ ex-convicts. The Washington Post reported that the Trones are part of a growing number of executives who believe “that draconian punishments have gone too

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Boca Raton, FL based The GEO Group Inc. is a horrible company.

Can you imagine anyone or any entity hoping for crime to rise, for incarceration to increase and whose financial motivation is to lock up more people for longer periods of time? As a society, we should be working towards reducing crime, helping people re-enter society, fostering stronger family units and not being known as the country with the largest (by

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