Activists Launch National Prison Strike at Broward Main Jail on Nat Turner Day

It’s not every day that inmates at the Broward County Main Jail are serenaded by a cacophony of megaphones, trombones, paint bucket drums, and violins. But tonight, South Florida activists will bust out their instruments and create as much noise as possible to highlight lousy conditions and the state’s worst-in-the-nation treatment of former prisoners when it comes to voting rights.

The Ten Progressive Candidates in South Florida

Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election by running as an anti-establishment, outsider candidate. (Russia may have helped, too.) In 2018, the Democratic party is responding by propping up outsider candidates of their own, often with political positions substantially to the left of traditional Democratic candidates. Many of South Florida’s…

ACLU Slams ICE’s Private Prison Company Threatening Florida Activists With Lawsuit

The Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, has helped turn the GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s single largest contractor, from a largely unknown private prison firm hated by justice-reform activists into a toxic company from which even some Republican politicians are now refusing donations.

End-of-Days Author Disfigured by Mislabeled Antique Gun

With the chamber loaded up with 8x57mm ammunition, Fletcher lifted the barrel into the muggy air and pulled the trigger. The gun exploded in his face, destroying his right eye and permanently disfiguring him. In a Palm Beach County lawsuit, the Arkansas resident blames Century Arms for the accident, claiming it distributed the Mauser rifle with the wrong ammunition profile and model stamped on it.

Florida’s Private-Prison Population Spiked 211 Percent Since 2000

America largely phased out the use of privately run, for-profit jails and prison facilities in the early 20th Century after the public realized that the practice of making a profit from caging people was a particularly heinous piece of the capitalist economy. But amidst a government privatization push under Ronald…

Fort Lauderdale Tourism Bureau Paid More Than $300,000 for The Bachelor to Film in Town

In an episode promoted as “drama-packed,” the Most Hated Bachelor of All Time took his 13 girlfriends to Broward County. Racecar driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. and his brood rode bicycles on the Hollywood Broadwalk, took an airboat ride in the Everglades, sailed aboard a yacht, visited the Bonnet House, and, randomly, went bowling. The glitzy, oceanfront W Fort Lauderdale played host.