News & Updates

This week, the Florida Action Committee is exhibiting at the Smart Justice Summit in Sarasota, FL. The purpose of the Smart Justice Summit is to bring together stakeholders in justice and corrections to “place greater advocacy emphasis on changes to improve public safety while reducing costs to the taxpayers.” Below are some pictures from the Summit.      

Hold onto your Fourth Amendment rights, folks, a new kind of racial profiling is coming to America. Because, really, why would a group of young Asian women come here if not to enter the sex trade? At least that seems to be the attitude of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, who detained the South Korean pop band Oh My Girl at

The Washington Post released an article entitled “The Biggest Pinocchios of 2015”, describing the most outrageous lies of the past year. Sex Trafficking statistics received a special honor on this list for just how clearly bogus they have been represented. Fact checkers evaluated the veracity of several claims over the past year (mostly coming from politicians) to see what were

Many of you reading this post have an intimate knowledge of the Florida prison system. Either you spent some time as an inmate or you have a loved one who was or is incarcerated. You know about the corruption and inadequacies of the system. Now, through a Miami Herald expose, the rest of the world will know what a cesspool

States have gutted family visitation programs in reaction to prison overcrowding, and racist ideas about black sexuality. My small feet thump the concrete as I hurry toward the door. My four older brothers trail closely behind. Upon entering, we disappear into the apartment and excitedly explore every corner. We peek out the window at our new playmates. By morning, the

This is our weekly update from last week. We are posting it here so that we can share it through social media as well. Dear Members and Advocates, Let’s call this week’s update “musical sex offenders”. Like the children’s game where you circle chairs, removing one each time and when the music stops, one child is left without a chair