Forgotten Majority

Advocating for the just and humane treatment of those who are incarcerated.

Day: March 19, 2017

  • FLORIDA PAROLE BILLS – 2017 SESSION

         HB 535 General BILL by Edwards ; (Co-Introducers) Cortes, J. Aged Prison Inmates; Requires DOC to consider needs of inmates older than 50 years of age & adopt health care standards for that population; provides for supervised conditional elderly release program; provides criteria for program eligibility; authorizes arrest of inmate who has been released […]

  • Prosecutors Find No Wrong Doing in Shower Death at Dade Correctional Mental Health Unit

    MARCH 17, 2017 4:32 PM BY JULIE K. BROWN jbrown@MiamiHerald.com                                        A 101-page investigation released Friday concludes that corrections officers who locked a schizophrenic inmate in a hot shower at Dade Correctional Institution and left him there […]