Comments on: Florida Prison Strike Planned

The hypocrisy of it all. In this situation, ICE doesn’t have any room to talk. Previous reports revealed that ICE has released hundreds of unregistered, untrackable illegal sex offenders back onto the streets. Where did they all go? Where are they now?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/06/13/ice-freed-sex-offenders-often-without-notifying-states/v14qAOXKUOqAtaFeKGeGWI/story.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ice-releases-19723-criminal-illegals-208-convicted-of-murder-900-of-sex-crimes/article/2589785

http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/24/illegal-immigrant-sex-offenders-are-escaping-deportation-not-having-to-join-sex-offender-registry/

Still think these registries are about so-called ‘public safety’? Americans have been conned! It is nothing but political grand-standing for votes and money.

By: A.

A. — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:27:00 +0000

I am also interested in any further information about locations/times of these outside-prison protests.

By: JV

JV — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:46:15 +0000

My brother has been in prison for going on 10 years now. Got a minimum mandatory for drug trafficking , 15 years. Which i hear has since been changed and he would be out now if he was sentenced under the same law. Bogus as hell. He has moved around from Coleman to Gulf and is now currently in a work camp i believe, but he has told me about the awful conditions, the guard beatings, the riots because they tried to take away peas or some other food item, etc….. so God only knows what is happening that he DOESN’T tell me. If i could i would get a lawyer to get him out of there, but from what i understand the prisons here being largely privatized means that people are making money off of other people’s miseries. So there is no incentive to take actions against because then they are basically taking money from their own pockets, and who wants to do that? They don’t have to live there, everyone is just a statistic so it doesn’t bother them.

By: Nail DOC

Nail DOC — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:25:50 +0000

This is great news. The inmates have more balls than most of us out here on probation and registered. We should join them by protesting outside the probation offices as well. The more negative attention we can bring to DOC the better. And just like the first guy mentioned, I know first hand and saw the abuses of this hell hole cess pool of ignorant redneck rejects who can’t work anywhere else, but the prisons. In places like Starke and Raiford, the kids grow up there with aspirations to actually look forward to working at the prisons. True story. And absolutely, I second the statement about sex offenders being abused by not just officers but inmates too. And that part about inmates doing whatever they have to in order to survive or get canteen food is true, and includes selling their bodies for sex, gay sex mind you, or sex with opposite or same sex officers in order to get things like food or cigarettes. Again, true story. And I went to Lake Butler in July 2012. No AC. Temps in 90-100s. Not even any natural window ventilation!! We’re forced to sleep with all cotton “blues” on. Pants included. If you slept in your boxers you’d get sent to confinement. I had sergeants in our dorm tell the entire dorm to let her know who the “chomos” (child molester/SO’s) were and she would “sick” her inmate do boys on them to harass them and steal their canteen to the point where they would “check in” or want to get moved out the dorm. …..I wish the guy that did Untouchables documentary, would do something on the prisons here. I would GLADLY do as many interviews and tell him everything I witnessed. Is there a way we can contact someone to possibly do a documentary like this??

By: G

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:02:26 +0000

In reply to Florida Action Committee. I volunteer to drive those nearby without transportation to a Miami prison. Does anyone know if there the Miami prison with the highest registered citizen prisoners? ,Or one where prisoners can see the protest site thru their bars, and thus we can lend them emotional support? And it saddens me, but more anger me, to hear the experiences being shared. How can it be anything but productive rehabilitation to have a low cost communication system allowing for family support? I understand that some prisoners use this as a way to communicate and further engage in illegal activities, but my understanding is family visits are monitored to in part prevent this, so I would believe some sort of controlled low cost video/telephone tech can be used to allow prisoner family face time and support?