Beyond Sheriff Joe's Tactics: Looking at Prison Reform in Florida With Fresh Eyes

Published March 28, 2013

Beyond Sheriff Joe's Tactics: Looking at Prison Reform in Florida With Fresh Eyes

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Florida has long had a reputation for locking up more people than other states. … While behind bars, they received little or no job training, mental health and substance abuse treatment nor the necessary life-skills to legitimately re-enter society …
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS COLUMN: THE PREGNANCY POLICE

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Pregnant women have been held in locked psychiatric wards, as well as in hospitals and in drug treatment programs under 24-hour guard. They have been forced to undergo intimate medical exams and blood transfusions over their … which means she got out …
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Doping scandal haunts former cyclist Tammy Thomas

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Thomas says she fell victim to sustained sexual abuse at the hands of her coaches, one of whom introduced her to performance-enhancing drugs, while USA Cycling and the U.S. Olympic Committee ignored and even encouraged the pattern. "They should have …
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