Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed 15 death warrants this year in the state with the second-largest death row population.
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US Executions May Reach Their Highest Rate Since 2010. Florida Has Had the Most. Read Post »
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. The caravan of executions started with a US Army veteran in March. It continued in May with a former Army Ranger who served in the Gulf War, then an Air Force veteran […]
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About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But that’s changing. So far this year, 41 people have been executed, up from 25 last year, and six more executions are scheduled. Early in his second term, […]
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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them. Read Post »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Manatee County’s commissioners didn’t expect to be threatened with removal from office for considering two measures meant to enhance disaster resilience in this fast-growing county on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The measures, both amendments to the county’s comprehensive plan, were […]
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As Trump wages war on US cities, GOP-led states have swiftly passed an array of laws threatening their autonomy.
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Republicans Pushed Hundreds of Bills This Year to Curtail Local Governments Read Post »
The state will also get $38 million from ICE for equipment and transportation involved in detaining non-citizens.
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Florida Awarded $608 Million Grant for Migrant Jails Under FEMA Program Read Post »
Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.
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DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.
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Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse. Read Post »
An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s decision ordering Florida and federal officials to begin winding down operations at Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades that opened in July. As I reported last month, in response to a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups, US District Judge Kathleen […]
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DeSantis Celebrates as Appeals Court Blocks Dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz Read Post »
Critics slammed the move, calling the jail an environmental threat that “has been functioning as an extrajudicial site.”
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Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
“It feels like history is slowly not repeating, but echoing,” tribe secretary William “Popeye” Osceola says.
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Miccosukee Tribe Lawsuit Challenges Environmental Harm at “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
Earlier this month, Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat from Orlando, joined several state lawmakers on a tour inside Alligator Alcatraz. When Eskamani entered a large white tent where detainees are separated into chain-link fenced areas, each containing 32 beds and three toilets, the men began chanting “Libertad!”—which means liberty in Spanish. Eskamani and the […]
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