The Florida Supreme Court – for the second time in as many months – ruled the state’s death penalty law is unconstitutional and can’t be applied to prosecutions that are pending. Effectively, that means death penalty murder trials are on hold for now. The ruling was handed down in a…
In 2001, a Broward County boy became the youngest ever in American to be sentenced to life in prison. That was 15 years ago. Recently, a number of those who were involved in the Lionel Tate case, including the judge, the prosecutor and the defense attorney, convened as part of…
Gerard Nelson was just 24-years-old, but he and his crew – the Str8Profit Boyz – were on the rise. To those on the outside, it appeared they were living a luxurious lifestyle funded by their creativity and business savvy as rappers and music producers. In reality, authorities say Nelson and…
It should come as little surprise that persons who are mentally ill comprise a significant portion of the incarcerated population. A recent report by the Treatment Advocacy Center indicated that American prisons and jails house an estimated 360,000 inmates with mental illness – or about 10 times the number of…