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DOJ: Florida Women’s Prison Subjects Prisoners to Unconstitutional Risk of Sexual Abuse
Loaded on June 1, 2021
by David Reutter, Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2021, page 28
Filed under:
Sexual Assault.
Location:
Florida.
by Kevin Bliss and David M. Reutter
After a blockbuster report by federal investigators in December 2020 that slammed Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution (LCI) for subjecting women to serial abuse, two state lawmakers rushed to act.
Rep. Diane Hart filed legislation in January 2021 to create a volunteer Citizens Oversight Council ...
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