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

  August 13 at 10:38 a.m.

  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.

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  Another Black South Floridian Says Wells Fargo Refused to Cash His Check, Called Cops

  August 9 at 9:37 a.m.

  After a long day of work, Jean Romane Elie headed to a Wells Fargo branch in West Palm Beach to withdraw money for rent. But when he handed over his driver's license and Visa card, the bank teller told the Haitian man to wait while she consulted with another...

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  Video: Protesters Stage Mock Baby-Caging Outside Florida Private-Prison Office

  August 8 at 12:50 p.m.

  Boca Raton's GEO Group — the single largest contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — absolutely does not want anyone to accuse it of caging people or separating families. GEO is so upset by such allegations that it threatened to sue Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group, all...

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

  August 3 at 1:45 p.m.

  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...

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  Owner of Greyhound Adoption Agency Details Abuses of Dogs at Palm Beach Kennel Club

  July 13 at 9:24 a.m.

  Sonia Stratemann, owner of Elite Greyhound Adoptions, says she received dogs from the Palm Beach Kennel Club with legs that literally dangled. Many of them were kept for use in blood banks rather than being euthanized, and needed urgent dental care. She eventually sent photos of the abused dogs to Hume, asking for financial help.

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  Palms West Hospital Misled Family About Patient's Death, Lawsuit Alleges

  June 19 at 8 a.m.

  Barbara Dziedzic struggles to hold back tears as she recounts the moment her 25-year-old son, Josh, collapsed in a chair at Palms West Hospital after a seemingly routine IV line removal. She propped up his trembling body as best she could until the medical staff arrived and tried to prevent him from slipping into a coma.