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Category: Visitation
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EDITOR INTERVIEW RE: VISITATION ROLLBACK
Sascha Cordner serves as the host and producer of local and state news content for the afternoon news program “All Things Considered” at WFSU. Sascha primarily covers criminal justice and social services issues. About a 100 people trekked to Tallahassee on April 6th for the two-hour hearing to voice their opposition to the proposed rule […]
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8 MARCH 2018 PROTEST RALLY AT FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Watch the video 3/8/18: http://www.wtxl.com/news/protesters-rallying-for-inmates-at-florida-dept-of-corrections/article_6bbf8816-2360-11e8-9e7e-f3f7d52e4ae6.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next Protesters are pictured at Gov. Rick Scott’s office dressed to represent offenders who will be negatively impacted by the proposed cutbacks in visitation, in spite of the well known factual benefits of getting a visit. They submitted a petition, authored by Jewie Tryon and addressed to Gov. Scott requesting his […]
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FLORIDA PRISON VISITATION = 2 DAYS A MONTH ALLOWED WITH YOUR LOVED ONE
FDOC Changing Visitation Rule: 2 days a Month For a Minimum of 2 hr per day. Jewie Tryon United States MAR 3, 2018 — The FDOC had cut even deeper still with a new proposed rule change to the Chapter 33 Visiting Rules. You can see this by going to: https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=33-601.722 Sec 2 (b) reads as […]
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“SORRY, VISITATION NOT APPROVED!”
Question: Ever wonder why you are only allowed to be on one offender’s visit list if you are not their family member? You won’t be able to visit an inmate you may be encouraging by mail or someone whose family is not in the state or someone who has no family left. It is a […]
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT REGION 2
Mr. Eric Lane Regional Director Region 2 Mr. Duane Spears Asst. Regional Director Mr. Brian Riedl Regional Warden Mr. Dan Eberlein Re-Entry Coordinator Region 2 consists of 18 correctional Institutions including the ‘Iron Triangle’, a cluster of three major prisons that form a razor-wire corridor along State Road 16 north of Starke with a […]
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WHO NEEDS SANTA?
BAKER C. I. WORK CAMP What a fantastic treat for all the children who were visiting their dads on Saturday, December 14, 2013, at the Baker C. I. Work Camp. The officers at this re-entry facility laid out the red carpet for the kids. The room was decorated with Christmas lights and a warm holiday […]
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FDOC WELCOMES INMATE VOICE FOCUS GROUPS
L-R rear: Willie Smith, Ocala; Timothy Cannon, Deputy Secretary; Judy Thompson, Forgotten Majority; John Barnes, Orlando; Michael Crews, Secretary. L-R front: Ricky Dixon, Deputy Asst. Sec. of Institutions; Agnes Fury, Tallahassee; Bonnie Barnes, Orlando; Kim Southerland, Deputy Asst. Sec. of Re-entry; Dr. Amando Aluart, Miami; Henry Brown, Miami. On September 30, 2013, the Inmate Voice […]
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PETITION – ADDRESSING THE ILLS OF FAMILY VISITATION
We hail our Inmate Voice Focus Group member, JEWIE TRYON, author of this petition, that stands in protest of Florida prisons creating demeaning policies that inhibit family visitation instead of enhancing it. Visitors are being treated in humiliating fashion at many of Florida’s prisons (there are exceptions like FSP & Baker) as more self-made rules […]