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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Minnesota Counties Stop Sending Kids to Youth Services International Juvie Lockup

    For more than a year, New Times has been investigating Thompson Academy, a publicly funded, privately run juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines where teens have alleged they faced physical and sexual abuse. Most recently, the lockup's top administrator, Craig Ferguson, left his post while unde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Broward Public Defender Alleges Abuse at Juvie Lockup in West Palm Beach

    The complaints echo similar allegations at Thompson Academy.​News at Florida's juvenile detention centers has not been good lately. At some state-run facilities, teenagers are allegedly being doped up on anti-psychotic drugs to control their behavior. At Thompson Academy, a privately run lockup in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Juveniles Alleging Sexual Assault and Abuse at Thompson Academy Agree to Settle Lawsuit

    ​Ending a seven-month legal battle that raised questions about living conditions at private juvenile prisons, the teenagers who alleged they were physically and sexually abused at the Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines have reached a settlement with the owners of the for-profit lockup.A federal cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Thompson Academy Calls Alleged Sex Assault of Teenager Consensual

    Defendants allege the sex was consensual.​The 14-year-old boy who filed a lawsuit alleging he was twice sexually assaulted by a counselor at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center last year was a willing participant in the encounters, lawyers for the Pembroke Pines center allege.In court d ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2011

    Kids Claim Abuse and Violence at Juvenile Lockup Thompson Academy

    Defendants allege the sex was consensual.​The 14-year-old boy who filed a lawsuit alleging he was twice sexually assaulted by a counselor at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center last year was a willing participant in the encounters, lawyers for the Pembroke Pines center allege.In court d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    In Alleged Sex Assault at Thompson Academy, Polygraph Results Are Murky

    ​This week's New Times cover story explores allegations of abuse and violence at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines. One of the most disturbing allegations, outlined in a federal class-action lawsuit, involves a 15-year-old boy who says he was twice forced to have ora ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Former Thompson Academy Administrator Was Arrested for DUI

    Youth Services InternationalA snapshot from a 2010 event at Thompson.​Three years ago, signs of trouble began to emerge at the privately run Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines. Gordon Weekes, head of the juvenile division at the Broward Public Defender's Office, wrote a l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Miami Rep. Luis Garcia Tours Thompson Academy, Cites Safety Concerns

    Photo by Mark Foley, courtesy Florida House of RepresentativesGarcia was not happy with what he saw at Thompson.​Miami Beach state Rep. Luis Garcia, Jr. last week got a rare glimpse inside the Pembroke Pines juvenile detention center where teenagers allege they were physically and sexually abused. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Thirteen Abuse Cases Reported at Thompson Academy Last Year

    Flickr user: Mark CogginsOnly one abuse allegation was verfied by investigators.​Thirteen separate cases of child abuse were reported at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines last year. Teenage boys at the 154-bed lockup said they endured a range of horrific incidents -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Police: Alleged Sexual Assaults at Thompson Academy "Unfounded"

    YSIThompson held a morale-boosting event before the abuse allegations came to light.​A 15-year-old boy's allegation that he was twice sexually assaulted by a male counselor at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center is "unfounded," according to police."There is no evidence to show that a se ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Bookworms

    White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy.

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    Russell Pearce and other illegal-immigration populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans.

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    More Allegations of Abuse Filed Against Thompson Academy

    Flickr user:Mark CogginsFive children are named as plaintiffs in the suit.​More teenagers have come forward with allegations of physical abuse and mistreatment at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines. Last month, a 15-year-old boy alleged in a federal lawsuit that he ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Advertiser on Local White Supremacist Site May Not Be Legitimate Racist

    FlickrGuile Hitler: Does Browne believe in White Power? Or just the Green?​His friends in the white supremacist community may be able to forgive John Harold Browne for being a scam artist -- and with his legal history for fraud, that's a strong possibility. But they must be positively scandalized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Who is John Tanton and Why Should You Care? Just Ask Joyce Tarnow.

    Joyce Tarnow (hearts) John Tanton​John Tanton's name is getting a lot of play. Depending on who you talk to, Tanton is either a raging pro-eugenics racist with a deep-seated animosity toward brown people -- or -- a beaming, professorial Renaissance man with an insatiable curiosity and an infallibl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Lake Worth and Immigration: A Call for Reasonable Debate

    Dayworkers looking for work outside LW Home Depot.​After last week's Community Relations Board meeting in Lake Worth, where a reading group from the Night Heron Grassroots Activism Center presented a PowerPoint lecture on hate groups operating in Lake Worth, I posted a couple of items on the meeti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Connecting the Dots: Does FAIR Play a Role in Lake Worth Politics?

    Support for AZ Sheriff Joe's draconian immigration enforcement.​The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is under scrutiny in Lake Worth these days. As we reported yesterday, residents packed a small room at Monday night's CRB meeting to hear a presentation on local "hate groups," inc ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2010

    Arizona Sheriff's Reign of Terror Becomes State Policy

    Support for AZ Sheriff Joe's draconian immigration enforcement.​The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is under scrutiny in Lake Worth these days. As we reported yesterday, residents packed a small room at Monday night's CRB meeting to hear a presentation on local "hate groups," inc ... More >>

  • Articles

    May 6, 2010

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes State Policy, Thanks to State Sen. Russell Pearce and Gov. Jan Brewer

    Support for AZ Sheriff Joe's draconian immigration enforcement.​The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is under scrutiny in Lake Worth these days. As we reported yesterday, residents packed a small room at Monday night's CRB meeting to hear a presentation on local "hate groups," inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Palm Beach State Attorney to Get Neo-Nazi Stabbing Case Next Week

    Flickr: Paul Garland​Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker says his investigators are wrapping up their case against the two men involved in the knife fight Monday night at the Ritz Carlton, where Nazi historian David Irving was giving a speech. He expects to deliver investigative findings to the Pal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Ritz Knife Fight Reveals "War" Between White Supremacists, Watchdog Says

    Flickr user: Jon LeightonProtestors at a David Irving event in England.​The knife fight that broke out during Holocaust-denier David Irving's speech at the Ritz-Carlton on Manalapan this week appears to be the latest twist in an ongoing spat between two white supremacist factions, according to a w ... More >>

  • Music

    September 25, 2008

    Rollins Brand

    Rock 'n' roll maverick Henry Rollins talks politics and the upcoming election

  • News

    November 15, 2007

    Half Truths

    Undocumenteds are part of the problema

  • News

    December 28, 2006

    Classic Gustavo

    We go into the Ask a Mexican archives for a holiday treat.

  • News

    November 23, 2006

    Lies, Damn Lies, and Mexicans

    Don't you believe these statistics, hombre.

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    Dead in the Water

    To Be a Reef

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Smile for the Devil

    Before you throw that punch, brawler, flash your pearlies for Diablo.

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    United States of Jesus

    The folks who are "reclaiming America for Christ" are pushing an agenda for a Taliban-like state where Scripture is law

  • Film

    November 7, 2002

    Go FLIFF Yourself

    The "world's longest film festival" needs to tighten things up a bit

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters for September 20, 2001

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    The Heart of Whiteness

    The South Florida Aryan Alliance, the World Church of the Creator, the Aryan Werwulfes: They're here, they're white, get used to it

  • News

    February 19, 1998

    The Racist Next Door

    Don Black fills the Internet with hate and calls for a revolution to split the country along racial lines

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