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Brittany Shammas

Brittany Shammas is a former staff writer at Miami New Times. She covered education in Naples before taking a job at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She joined New Times in 2016.

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Miami-Based Jail Health-Care Company Profits While Patients Die

By Brittany Shammas
Sep 17, 2019

The voice on the other end of the line sounded so thin, so frail, that at first Erika Williams didn't recognize it as her son's. It was only by the ten digits glowing on her iPhone — the number for the Flagler County jail — that she realized who was calling her February 4, 2019, a balmy Monday in North Florida.
The 11 Types of People You'll See at the Democratic Debates in Miami

By Jerry Iannelli, Jessica Lipscomb, Manuel Madrid, Brittany Shammas and Joshua Ceballos
Jun 18, 2019

June 26 and 27, a whopping 20 Democratic candidates for president will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts just north of downtown Miami in the first debates of the 2020 election cycle. They will bicker, slam Donald Trump, and almost certainly embarrass themselves by...
Parkland Cop Scot Peterson Fired and Arrested on 11 Criminal Charges Related to Shooting UPDATED

By Jerry Iannelli, Naomi Feinstein and Brittany Shammas
Jun 4, 2019

Scot Peterson, the Broward Sheriff's Office school resource officer who failed to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the February 14, 2018 massacre, was fired today and arrested on 11 criminal charges related to his conduct the day of the shooting.
Another Black Teenager Accuses Broward Sheriff's Office of Using Excessive Force

By Brittany Shammas
May 14, 2019

Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
Medical Marijuana Cost a Nursing Student Her Spot at Nova Southeastern

Medical marijuana cost a nursing student her spot at Nova Southeastern.

By Brittany Shammas
May 7, 2019

When Kaitlin McKeon was confronted with the results of her drug test, she already knew what it would show: positive for marijuana. Before she'd even enrolled in the nursing program at Nova Southeastern University, the bubbly then-23-year-old had told school officials she had a medical marijuana card and used the...