Florida Action Committee (FAC)

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

Probation officers don’t tell registrants where to go??? HA!!!! OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A sex offender who was evicted from an Osceola County homeless camp said his probation officer told him to sleep in a The Home Depot parking lot since he had nowhere else to go. For the past two nights, deputies found the man sleeping in the parking

Read the full audit here: http://www.oppaga.state.fl.us/MonitorDocs/Reports/pdf/15-FDC.pdf   TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –Florida’s prisons are infiltrated by drugs and tobacco, dependent on outdated security systems, run by inexperienced and overstretched staff, and are housing inmates who are staying longer — and returning just as frequently. In short, the nation’s third-largest prison system runs a daily risk of becoming another headline, according to the

North Carolina’s Supreme Court just upheld a law making it a crime for a former sex offender to use social media that minors also use—that is, any social media. In New Hampshire a judge rejected the appeal of Owen Labrie’s conviction for using a computer to “lure” a fifteen-year-old girl into sex. If Labrie, the prep school senior whose rape trial made