Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Prisons carry enormous, perhaps impossible to measure social costs—but when assessing the system fiscally, reformers should focus on staffing salaries instead of the number of incarcerated people. Every year states spend about $50 billion to lock up over 1.3 million people, or about $35,000 per prisoner per year. Although individual state averages obviously vary, statistics like these suggest that even

The below are some excerpts from an article that appeared in FeminismIndia.com Assumptions Vs Reality Check – Is It What They Think It Is? Recidivism For one, the basic premise of a sex offenders’ database is that convicted offenders are more likely to commit the same crime again. But NCRB data shows that the percentage of recidivism by convicted offenders was only 6.4%

Just over a month ago we posted “Countdown to Gundy“. It will be the first “sex offender case” to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States this session and it’s potential impact can be huge. I won’t rehash the details of the case (which can be found in the above link to last month’s article or in

The following are excerpts from an article about a Florida-based prison profiteer, Smart Communications US, Inc. which is privatizing inmate mail FOR PROFIT. When will it end? A PA inmate is urging “all prisoners to immediately cease sending and accepting mail in response to the draconian new prison policies of current Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. Eliminating the right of prisoners

We wrote about this proposed amendment back in March of this year. Since then, despite being struck from this November’s ballot because “the title and summary do not meet the requirements of Florida laws … in fully, fairly, and accurately telling the voters the chief purpose of the proposed amendment, and because the title and summary are, in addition, misleading” (Judge