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  Feds Say Delray Man Targeted Foster Children as Recruits in Sex-Trafficking Scheme

  November 15 at 1:58 p.m.

  Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.

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  Facing Widespread Divestment and Public Outcry, GEO Group Tries to Soothe Shareholders

  November 6 at 11:49 a.m.

  To say GEO Group is in a slump is to put it mildly. The last time the prison company's stock prices remained this low was in 2016, when the Obama administration announced it would phase out all federal contracts with privatized correctional facilities.

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  Emails Show GEO Employee Threatening ICE Detainees Who Didn't Clean Their Jails

  October 31 at 10:47 a.m.

  Immigration detainees are held on civil, not criminal, charges. Therefore, imprisoned immigrants have argued for years they cannot legally be forced to work like prisoners while held in civil detention. In December 2017, Raul Novoa — a Mexican man living in Los Angeles on a green card — sued the GEO Group, the private prison corporation based in Boca Raton. He alleges that detainees were forced to work for the company for as little as $1 per day and that the absurdly small wages were illegal for detainees who hadn't been convicted of crimes.

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  South Florida Ranks Among Top Areas for Minority-Owned Startups

  October 30 at 2:20 p.m.

  Along with shady condo sales and sleazy politicians, South Florida also attracts its fair share of minority-owned businesses. The Miami metropolitan area remains fertile ground for startups — so fertile, in fact, that it ranks among the top four places in the country for new minority-owned businesses.

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  Court Dismisses Laura Loomer's Complaints Against Florida Muslim Advocacy Group

  October 23 at 9:56 a.m.

  A federal judge has dismissed complaints against a Florida Muslim advocacy group filed by Laura Loomer, the conservative conspiracy theorist with a history of Islamophobic comments who's now running for Congress.

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  Greyhound Advocate Says Lawsuit to Overturn Racing Ban Is a "Slap in the Face to Voters"

  October 8 at 10:15 a.m.

  The greyhound industry isn't taking defeat well. After unsuccessfully suing to keep a measure banning dog racing off the Florida ballot last year, greyhound breeders and trainers are headed back to court. This time, they're arguing that the ban — approved by 69 percent of state voters in the 2018 election — strips their dogs of their earning potential.