A bill allowing young sexual abuse victims to secretly record their attackers to use as evidence in court cleared its first Senate hearing Monday. After changing the bill Monday, Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto (R-Fort Myers) says her measure now allows victims of sexual abuse under 18 to make secret recordings of their abusers. It also includes […]
Dockery: No accountability from governor on prison mess – Tampa Bay Times
Generally when a crisis occurs in a large organization, the CEO is expected to acknowledge and address the problem, keep stakeholders up to date on progress and be held accountable for the problems that occurred. Why is it then that Gov. Rick Scott has been AWOL on the crisis within our prison system? Here are […]
Record shows Florida’s prisons have weak record of policing themselves – Naked Politics
Sometime in August 2013, Department of Corrections senior investigators Aubrey Land and John Ulm sat down with their boss, Inspector General Jeffery Beasley, to talk about possible corruption in the department. That day and in coming days, they detailed how they had found evidence that corrections officers had lied and had falsified reports, and how […]
