19% of US Population Serving Life Without Parole are in Florida
Nearly 20% of the people in the United States serving a Life sentence without the possibility of parole are in Florida. Considering Florida has only 6.47% of the US population, that number is HUGELY disproportionate. 11% of those incarcerated in a Florida Prison are there for Life without Parole. These statistics comes from a report titled, “No End In Sight” from The Sentencing Project.
The report highlights this country’s growing trend in locking people up for life. Where the entire US prison population was under 200,000 in the early 70’s, today there are more than 200,000 alone who are serving life sentences! And though not a highlight from the report, but certainly a take-away for our purposes, between 2012 and 2020, the number of people serving life for a sexual-related offense increased by 40%!
The report does not address it, but there are many other “for life” trends that have rapidly increased in popularity, including lifetime probation and lifetime registration (which every registrant in Florida is on). The problem with all “for life” sentences, whether inside or outside the fence, they fail to acknowledge that people can (and do) change, they fail to account for limited financial resources to administer an exponentially growing population, and they fail to account for an aging population.
The Sentencing Project is doing some great things. We hope they throw our cause some attention also.
ACLU should be getting in that any day now…
The ACLU usually gets involved in cases with trending topics along racial and sexual orientation lines, abortion and immigration. The fights they choose are ones they are fairly sure they can win. Helping the homeless in Miami was an anomalous incident. Lest we forget, they threw us under the bus on restoring our right to vote. Here are Florida ACLU’s priorities this 2021 legislative session:
https://www.aclufl.org/en/2021-legislative-priorities-and-bill-tracker
Where is SB 932? SB 522? SB 234?
Are we supposed to be surprised?
Let’s see, Florida is the leading state in harassing it’s citizens who aren’t even suspected of any criminal conduct. As someone brought up in a previous post, a man was arrested in Burger King for eating his breakfast within 1,000 feet of a tennis court. Thank goodness Florida law enforcement was on it’s toes that day and apprehended this “offender” before he could do something to his bacon sandwich. Who knows what he would have done if he made it to the tennis court high on caffeine.
Florida locks people up in prison under the pretext that they are “patients” being “treated” for diagnosis’ not recognized by the medical community and does nothing to help these “patients” get well so they can be released.
Florida has Ron and Lauren Book who are absolutely obsessed with keeping these Burger King offenders in line.
Florida is in the 11th Circuit, a circuit that needs remedial instruction in constitutional law.
No. I’m not surprised.
Dear FAC ,
I wanted to share this on the appropriate topic post and I felt this might be that post to share it on. I hope you’ll allow this through and I hope you and everyone else here will read it.
The Gateway Pundit is a conservative leaning publication and they are not praising the man in the story, they’re just telling the story – like journalists should. But here’s why I felt it was necessary to share here and maybe something like this can be used in one of (or several of) FAC’s lawsuits; because of any of us tried to become “activists” (liberal or conservative), we’d be damn near lynched in the public square. People with only 1 sexual offense (of ANY kind) are always incorrectly assumed to be “likely” to do it again. Well, this guy has done it SEVERAL times. What has he done? Shot people. And convicted of 2nd degree murder.
I will bet everything I own that he doesn’t get random police checkups. He certainly doesn’t have to register his crime(s) or his home address, or how many cars park near his home and for how long, etc, etc.
But we are the “threats to public safety”???!!!!! Seriously!!???
Look here;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/convicted-murderer-turned-activist-baltimore-wants-city-pay-criminals-not-kill/