Forgotten Majority

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

Category: Abuse Intervention

  • 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 […]

  • MARISSA ALEXANDER NOW

    Wondering what Marissa Alexander is doing NOW?  She’s fighting and she’s only just begun. Introducing: The Marissa Alexander Justice Project. Why I created this organization: I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled….. The Mission of the MAJP is to provide services that promote the collaboration of broader movements of social justice and […]

  • ACHIEVABLE SOLUTIONS FOR FLORIDA’S FLAWED GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

    Courtesy of George Mallinckrodt Author:  GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER http://www.georgemallinckrodt.com/ http://www.georgemallinckrodt.com/banned_book.htm http://www.georgemallinckrodt.com/getting_away_with_murder.htm Despite the recent arrests of a few officers implicated in a pill ring and others who have engaged in criminal activity, the culture of brutality and secrecy is alive and well within the FL DOC.  This paper presents a solution, if implemented, that […]

  • $29 MIL TO LOCK UP KIDS IN THE WORST FACILITY IN THE STATE?

    Close the Palm Beach Juvenile Facility In a state known for its abusive youth prisons, the Palm Beach Juvenile Correctional Facility may be the worst of them all. Nearly a third of boys housed at the privately run Palm Beach facility were victims of sexual abuse, a horrifying statistic and the highest of any facility […]

  • FL DEPT. OF CORR. ESSENTIALS: LIE DETECTORS, BODY CAMERAS AND NO DEAD ZONES

    Courtesy First Coast News Miami Herald EDT May 5, 2015  Victim Shurick Lewis, 41.   (Photo: FDLE)                                           LAKE CITY, Fla. — Two corrections officers were arrested after allegedly dragging an inmate to a secluded area […]

  • DEMISE OF SB 7020 – HOPE LOST FOR INMATE PROTECTION

    Prison reform compromise among the dead bills on session floor Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:44pm By Mary Ellen Klas and Michael Auslen As the session melted down on Tuesday, Senate President Andy Gardiner announced that the prison reform compromise — which featured the Senate agreeing to withdraw from its […]

  • FLORIDA HOUSE GUTS SENATE BILL 7020

                       THIS IS YOUR CALL TO ACTION!         SB 7020 passed the Senate unanimously on March 18th but House Bill 7131 has extracted the molars, the teeth that grind.  HB 7131 removes the Florida Corrections Commission, an independent oversight Commission with the authority to […]

  • OVERSIGHT COMMISSION FOR FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

    Senate Bill 7020, submitted by Senator Greg Evers,  which appoints a Florida Corrections Commission to investigate abuses within the prisons, passed unanimously on 3/18/15. Featured Article Courtesy of Mary Ellen Klaus,  Bradenton Herald,  3/19/15 TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate on Wednesday put money behind its pledge to reform the state’s troubled prison system, voting to […]

  • FLORIDA JUSTICE IMPACT PROJECT

    The Florida Justice Impact Project (FJIP), sponsored by Forgotten Majority, Inc., is slated to open its doors July 1, 2015 in Jacksonville, Florida. This legal enterprise will offer Criminal Defense services to local residents who are economically disadvantaged, as determined by Federal Poverty Guidelines.  In addition, they will respond to reports of inmate abuses and follow […]