Florida Action Committee (FAC)

With the recent attention incarceration rates have received, we wanted to share some excerpts from Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk. The book was recently reviewed in the Financial Times and the reviewer wrote that it left him realizing that the problem was far worse than he imagined. The book’s author is a

A Wisconsin news station ran this report in which the reporters, politicians and their department of corrections acknowledge that the residency restrictions have backfired. Now, they are proposing a bill to roll them back   SOURCE MILWAUKEE —No one wants a sex offender next door, but WISN 12 News has learned efforts to keep them out of a community may

Today, the Florida Action Committee submitted a written complaint to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting the office investigate the bogus sting operations taking place in our State. The stings, which have been uncovered and widely reported on recently, resulted in many innocent individuals unjustly saddled with the sex offender label, railroaded into plea deals and having their assets seized. A

Indiewire.com posted the following review of “Pervert Park” a documentary on the lives and conditions of individuals living at Florida Justice Transitions, a community for sex offenders. To view the trailer for the documentary, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSBupK2sd60 “Pervert Park” Do sex offenders get a bad rap? Would you want a sex offender as a neighbor, around your children? These questions are

Eric Goldman calls our attention to a rather astounding story out of Florida, involving how various Florida police departments are engaging in what appears to be basically sham “sting” operations online to arrest and shame men as child sexual predators, then steal their cars (sometimes offering to sell them back), and then doing everything possible to hide the records. The

The United States leads the world in the number of people the country puts behind bars. Although it only has 5% of the world’s population, the United States has 25% of the world’s prison population. The United States is the world’s biggest jailer. Put another way, one in 99 adults is living behind bars in the United States, and one in