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CCA Reportedly Drumming Up Support for Immigrant Pen Through Robocall "Survey"

wired.com​Update: Click through for a sample voicemail received by one Southwest Ranches resident yesterday.--Original post, 11/2: Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office has confirmed that it received 40 to 50 phone calls yesterday from Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches-area residents who were autom ... More >>

History Repeats Itself in Southwest Ranches, NIMBY Capital of Broward County

And they have been, for a dozen years.​"The new jail planned for southwest Broward County will go in a barren area where the county puts things that nobody wants," wrote David Fleshler and John Maines at the beginning of a story in the Sun-Sentinel.At stake was a plan by the Corrections Corporatio ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Calls Out Southwest Ranches Mayor for Silence on Detention Center

​We reported last week from the scene of a Southwest Ranches town hall meeting where so many people showed up to protest a proposed immigrant detention pen that BSO deputies just started blocking people from entering the council chambers, citing fire code.The detention center wasn't on the agenda ... More >>

Southwest Ranches, Pines Residents Rally Against Immigrant Pen and "Cone of Silence"

Photos by Stefan Kamph​The Pulp tried to attend last night's meeting of the Southwest Ranches town council, but BSO Deputy Lee Roselli and Cmdr. Wallace Haywood wouldn't let us inside the council chambers. So we remained outside with the 50 or so local residents who were loudly protesting an immig ... More >>

With Prison Privatization Plan on Hold, GEO Group Website Still Vying for Contract

​Poor GEO Group. The Boca Raton-based private prison operator, former known as Wackenhut Corrections, had planned to invest $3 million in its quest to win a contract to run most of the prisons in the southern part of Florida. But two weeks ago, a circuit court judge struck down the state Legi ... More >>

Manuel Valle Executed After Stay Denied by United States Supreme Court

Florida Department of CorrectionsManuel Valle​South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle was executed by lethal injection inside the Florida State Prison at 7:14 p.m. today.Valle came within minutes of dying earlier in the day, before the U.S. Supreme Court halted the lethal injection for several h ... More >>

Manuel Valle, South Florida Cop Killer, Has Execution Delayed by Florida Supreme Court

Florida Department of CorrectionsManuel Valle, now sheduled to die on September 1.​The first jailhouse coup de grâce approved by Gov. Rick Scott has been delayed by the Florida Supreme Court.Manuel Valle -- convicted of killing a Coral Gables cop in 1978 -- was scheduled to be executed on August ... More >>

Rick Scott Signs Off on First Lethal Juicing for South Florida Cop Killer

Florida Department of CorrectionsManuel Valle is scheduled to die on August 2.​Gov. Rick Scott has approved the first jailhouse coup de grace of his governorship, the Miami Herald reports.Manuel Valle -- convicted of killing a Coral Gables cop in 1978 -- is scheduled to be executed on August 2.Acc ... More >>

Another Youth Services International Lockup Gets Dismal Review From State

Youth Services InternationalLast year Thompson held a "Keep the Peace" event.​Youth Services International, the for-profit operator of the juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines where teenagers allege they have been physically and sexually abused, has faced similar complaints at a lockup in S ... More >>

DNA Proved Them Innocent, but These Three Released Convicts Haven't Gotten Restitution

Photo by Flickr user curly_exp( l)osureMore jails would be empty if DNA evidence keeps clearing inmates.​If you've ever felt as though the powers that be have dealt you an unfair hand, stop your belly-aching. Try serving more than a decade in prison for a crime you didn't commit -- the harsh reali ... More >>

From Government Snitch to Best-Selling Author, Andrés López Exposes the Cocaine Cartels

Former Commissioner Mary McCarty Embarrassed to Tell Inmates Why She's in Jail

McCarty knows how prison works: She keeps quiet on her crimes.​After spending more than a year and a half in the slammer, former Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty probably misses those nights at luxury cottages in Key West that caused her to trade her power suits for a jumpsuit. A Palm B ... More >>

Slick Rick Tops Fresh Fest Lineup at Club Cinema (CANCELED)

Owner of Pembroke Pines Juvie Lockup Has Checkered History

Flickr user: Mark CogginsThe company has a checkered history in Florida.​A recent lawsuit alleging sexual assault and physical abuse of inmates at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines is the latest in a string of abuse accusations lodged against the facility's owner.For ... More >>

A Happy Hour for Dogs

Sean Healy to Serve Ponzi Sentence in Texas, Despite Judge's Recommendation

Sean and Shalese Healy lived it up until Sean's investors, then the SEC, sued.​The Sean Healy ponzi scheme crossed so many state lines that postal inspectors had to get involved in the prosecution. He started out in New York, lived and spent in Weston, and funneled money from Pennsylvania. But Hea ... More >>

Sex Offender Who Was Once Confined to a Bench Now Back in Prison

Ronald Murphy​Last year, we brought you the case of Ronald Murphy, a convicted sex offender who, for nearly two months, was legally confined to a bench outside of his parole officer's building in Delray Beach. In 1998, Murphy was convicted of raping a woman on, of all places, a park bench. He was ... More >>

Killer Musical

Law Abiding Citizen Peddles Cheap Revenge Thrills

To Fellow Inmates, Madoff's So Bad, He's Good

Schadenfreude-starved followers of the Palm Beach pirate may be delighted to hear this, from an inmate at Madoff's prison in Butner, North Carolina, courtesy the New York Post:"Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the notoriety of it."But don't get your hopes ... More >>

From the Penthouse to the Big House: Madoff to Plead Guilty

Palm Beach financier Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty and get a life sentence.Here's betting that Bernie's future fellow inmates are looking forward to performing a very literal rendition of what Madoff did figuratively to his investors.

Wait... We Give Inmates Belts?

We must, because according to a Miami Herald headline, the inmates are tightening them. Just ask D'Angelo from The Wire whether belts should be allowed in prison. Well...I guess we can't ask him now, can we? Then again, maybe the Herald's just being metaphorical. Florida is coping with the effects o ... More >>

Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley to Stay in Federal Prison

Free Justin!

Despite well-documented injustice, a Pembroke Pines youth remains in jail

Austin's Powers

Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not

Slick Trouble

The government's determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds

Tailpipe

Sheriff Shaq

Muscles, Murder, and a Messiah

Ex-cop and bodybuilder Gil Fernandez Jr. murdered three men in the Everglades. But he only admits to killing the man he was.

The Snitch

Meet John Mamone -- devoted father, Mafia soldier, government witness

Crazy to Kill

In October 2002, they finally led Aileen Wuornos to where she wanted to go: the death chamber

Too Dumb to Die

Kevin Moore's case raises questions about executing the mentally disabled

Death Road Revisited

A patsy for the sheriff's department gets the blame

86ed

West Palm's "most notorious": Big fish or a small scapegoat in the war on drugs?

The Last Governor

The Egg Men

Volunteers spend millions of hours trying to rescue sea turtles. So how come so few people care about busting poachers?

Snitch and Whitewash

The state need not look far when investigating the murder of a Broward deputy. But it will have to look deep.

Admitting Terror: Part 5

When terrorists knock, the INS is more than likely to fall down on the job

Grift and Run

The FBI doesn't want you to know about Mel Ruth

Height of Fasching

The Fasching Grand Masken Ball

The Fest That Ate South Florida

This year's Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is bigger and... well, bigger

Letters to the Editor

Letters for October 5, 2000

Lock, Stock, and 48 Smoking Barrels

A year ago Wayne and Danny Dagenais stole guns from a family friend. In an effort to keep then-16-year-old Wayne out of jail, their parents tried to retrieve the weapons. But the plan didn't work.

Going Gold

At his new crib in Miramar, rapper Trick Daddy is smokin'out with his homies. Shows he's keeping it real and... going gold.

Letters

Power Points

Eulogy For a Shark

Alleged gang leader Rusty Feder swore he'd rather die than face prison. He was good to his word.

Undercurrents

I Think, Therefore I Scam

America gave Franco Nicoletti opportunities and riches beyond belief. But it didn't give him a conscience.

Paying the Race Card

Having made the county pay for Lockwood's alleged racism, embattled lawyer Norman Ganz is now going after the sheriff's office