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Jeff Brandes: Not cruel enough — Florida’s prisons and the heat that punishes without mercy
The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. You’d think that would settle the question of whether a person should be ...
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U.S. ports have fallen behind. Florida can move them forward | Column
In Aesop’s timeless fable, the boastful hare challenges the slow-moving tortoise to a race, certain of an easy win. But as the story goes, the ...
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Jeff Brandes: Florida’s lawsuit reform is working — so why undo it?
magine a neighborhood with a broken stoplight. For years, cars have been crashing into each other at the same intersection. Everyone knows the stoplight is ...
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Reducing sales tax ‘more realistic’ than cutting property taxes, former state senator says
The proposal from the Florida House Speaker to cut the state sales tax seems to be gaining fast support. “I think it’s a lot shorter ...
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Florida Democrats again push for ‘inmate bill of rights’ in correction system
Starting in the 2010s, many of the country’s reddest states began enacting serious criminal justice reforms, culminating on the federal level when President Donald Trump ...
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Florida’s Corrections Crisis: The Urgent Need for a Criminal Justice Commission
Florida’s prison system is facing a staffing crisis, aging infrastructure, and rising incarceration rates. A 2023 state report found Florida needs $6.2 billion in new ...
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