For Many Florida Ex-Cons, Voting Booth Is Off-Limits
For Many Florida Ex-Cons, Voting Booth Is Off-Limits
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Four times each year in the state capital, Tallahassee, Florida Gov. Rick Scott sits in a windowless basement room full of convicted felons. Robbers, sexual molesters, drunk drivers, drug traffickers and others walk to the lectern, one by one, to ask …
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Election 2012: Civil Liberties Win Big on the Ballot
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From Maine to Minnesota, California to Florida, and Massachusetts to New Mexico, Americans chose freedom. Voters spoke loud and clear about … Life sentence penalties would remain when an individual's third strike conviction is for certain non-serious …
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Advocates in Florida push for tickets for some crimes instead of jail
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According to a January 2011 report by the Associated Industries of Florida Foundation, the success of the juvenile diversion programs in Leon and Miami-Dade "suggested that the number of juveniles processed through the system could be reduced by 40 …
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Cortez burglar sentenced to jail, probation
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Charles H. Leonard was sentenced to the Florida Department of Corrections and credited for 491 days served on Sept. 5 by 12th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Janette … Leonard faced one felony armed burglary charge, with a maximum life prison sentence …
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