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  Immigrants at Key West Jail Report Abuse, Neglect, and Extreme Isolation

  Friday, December 20, 2019 at 10:17 a.m.

  The report calls out substandard medical care and detainee deaths.

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  Brightline Is the Deadliest Train Per Mile in America, According to the AP

  Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 9:47 a.m.

  Brightline has killed people at a constant and startling clip.

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  Convicted West Palm Beach Killer Still Says He Was Sleepwalking

  Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 8 a.m.

  After his arrest in the stabbing death of his roommate Brooke Preston, Randy Herman Jr. had a bizarre defense.

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

  Friday, November 15, 2019 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

  Wednesday, November 6, 2019 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

  Thursday, October 31, 2019 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.