Voting Rights for felons restored for 1.4 million Veteran wide receiver Anquan Boldin and other players celebrated a ballot initiative win in Florida on Tuesday November 7, 2018 By Eric Adelson - Yahoo Sports - ORLANDO, Fla. — The social ju...
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Amendment 4 required 60 percent approval to pass. November 7, 2018 Florida voters during Tuesday’s midterm elections approved Amendment 4, automatically restoring voting rights in the state for people previously convicted of felonies. Florida’s Amendme...
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BY SANYA MANSOOR November 01, 2018 Four years ago, Harold Hempstead stunned the Florida prison system — and unleashed a major scandal — when he described to the Miami Herald how officers at Dade Correctional Institution had locked an inmate in a small, rigged shower room, turned the water on...
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November 2, 2018 By Sarah Macaraeg Every day in Memphis, more than 5,000 people, on average, spend their hours locked up inside one of four Shelby County facilities, according to figures provided by county officials. More than half are pretrial detainees, held behind bars be...
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The inmates who brutally murdered mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger moved out of the view of surveillance cameras before pummeling him to death using a padlock stuffed inside a sock until he was “unrecognizable,” law-enforcement officials have revealed. However, cameras caught at least tw...
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October 30, 2018 James “Whitey” Bulger — who ruled Boston’s criminal underworld for a quarter-century, stayed on the run for 16 years and then spent the last years of his life in a high-security federal prison — has died, the Department of Justice confirmed Tuesday. He was ...
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Feds improperly listen to calls 85 times, the prosecutor refused to tell the judge By Tony Rizzo October 23, 2018 A federal judge in Kansas City, Kan., has ordered a woman’s early release from prison after learning that a former prosecutor listened to ...
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Family members of those incarcerated had described dire conditions inside one of the facilities, which sustained major roof damage during the storm. A collapsed welcome sign at the entrance to the Gulf Correctional Institution. (Talal Ansari ) October 15, 2018...
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Prison guard Mark McShane now an inmate FCI Waseca - (InmateAid) MINNEAPOLIS, MN - A former correctional officer was sentenced Thursday after the U.S. Attorney found he had sex with an inmate. U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing o...