Tracy

I am so sorry 🙁
I keep complaining that I cannot get off the registry but at least I am home with my family. So that puts things in perspective for me that “It could be worse”.

Thanks for the update and make sure to surround yourself with prayer warriors. And on a side note, my lawyer also hired one of those doctors before I sentenced. He wanted me to admit I was mentally ill and I told him I was NOT mentally ill, I just made a mistake. That doctor yelled at me and said I am making a big mistake.

He was trying to get me into a treatment center instead of prison. Now listening to your families’ story and struggles, I know I made the right choice. I might still be locked up if I had taken the other path.

I leave you with this verse of comfort:

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

Thank you Cherokeejack,
The past few months”looked” really good for my son to be released, he had completed necessary steps in treatment they required. On Tues 6/21/22 he received a zoom call with his attorney stating he had a release date of July 11th this year!! He finally felt some happiness. On 6/22/22 the next day he received a call from his Dr who is hired by the attorney, notified him that she had received a final report and felt he should work on a few more things and will revisit the possibility of release in a year! My son is very devastated as are we! I am going to increase the battle to get him justice. This is such an injustice, I failed to mention he spent 4.5 years in prison, won his appeal and 5pm the day before his release he was informed he would not be coming home rather going to FCCC

LarryP

And this is in Russia correct? Not Florida? I mean, we ALL know that something that crazy could only happen in a communist country right? I guess you also failed to mention they were all leapers as well.
Hum, this goes in the “Only in America” category. No wonder so many countries laugh at and mock us. We deserve it, it appears. If we look back in North American History, my Ancestors were killed or sent to camps after having the scared lands were ripped from them. And we won’t even get started on Slavery. But has history taught us nothing. Is the constitution just a piece of paper that hangs in the Halls of justice?
I will pray for these individuals and hope a powerful judge will put an end to the madness.

I am particularly disturbed at the observation that all mail is prohibited. This strikes me as a blatant violation of the law. Can anyone verify?

Thanks for keeping this issue alive. Apparently CCCs remain the last bastion of the state’s supposed fight against COVID. There is no way that conditions like these can reduce re-offending.

Unfortunately, the Florida Civil Commitment Center is today under a virtual total lockdown, purportedly due to COVID-19. Practically all inmate programming has been discontinued. Inmates aren’t permitted to mingle with inmates from other living units. All outgoing and incoming mail is opened, read, and returned to sender or confiscated according to the whim of FCCC officials. Today’s Florida Civil Commitment Center isn’t just LIKE a prison – it IS a prison!

Tracy

Depending on how much access you have to funding. Sometimes you can hire a lawyer to get them released to an outside private facility. Good news bad news though. The good news is, he is no longer in a prison setting, the bad news is, these places are in it for the money so they have little incentive to ever release him either.

Other ideas are:

Petition the Governor of your state.

Organize a protest outside the prison with other family members of other inmates. Even get the media involved in the hypocrisy of keeping someone beyond their sentence. (Try and connect with some of the other families)

Hire a lawyer to challenge the illegal practice of holding people past their sentences.

And A lot of prayer doesn’t hurt either. I mean heck, they are trying to release the man who shot one of the kennedy’s .