Comments on: The Dobbs Wire: Holding prisoners beyond their release dates!!?? https://floridaactioncommittee.org/the-dobbs-wire-holding-prisoners-beyond-their-release-dates/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:22:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: JV https://floridaactioncommittee.org/the-dobbs-wire-holding-prisoners-beyond-their-release-dates/comment-page-1/#comment-5720 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:22:44 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=6201#comment-5720 This is the same thing that happens in Seminole County. That’s where I was, and that’s exactly what they told me, that I couldn’t get out until I had a legal living arrangement. What they don’t mention is, they don’t help you at all. I was not allowed to use a phone, barely ever even got a newspaper, could not contact anyone with any means other than a letter, for which I had to somehow get the supplies for when they charge you $2 a day to be there, so there was virtually no way of me finding anything for myself. I had to depend on other people, and they could barely help themselves much less help me.

In the end, I had to make arrangements with someone I can only assume was on the DOJ payroll, who had the worst trailers you can imagine in one of the worst parts of Sanford that you can imagine. Ceilings fell in, he would turn off the hot water just because he didn’t like you, he actually stole my food stamp card from the community mailbox that he didn’t let anyone have access to, I would wake up with roaches crawling on me because I had to sleep on the floor with several other guys in the same predicament, it was just a nightmare. Then I had to ride my bike almost 25 miles a day just to get to a 7$ an hour job, rain or shine.

Sometimes I wonder how I survived that awful place, and how it was even legal in the first place.

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