Florida’s Department of Corrections, the nation’s third-largest with
128 prisons and other facilities housing more than 85,000 inmates, is
in the throes of a multifaceted scandal that shows no sign of stopping.
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Former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced Wednesday to
five years and 10 months in federal prison for business fraud, but
was allowed to remain free for three months so he could continue
assisting in a wide-ranging probe of corruption and
influence-peddling on Capitol Hill.
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In a bold, perhaps desperate, gamble to lift her campaign for the
U.S. Senate out of the doldrums,
U.S. Rep.
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A Florida sheriff ordered the closing of a boot camp for young
offenders Wednesday as the investigation into the death of a
14-year-old detainee widened and critics demanded all such facilities
in the state be shut down.
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Wayne Banta steered a visitor through the jumbled living room of his
two bed-two bath doublewide, listing aloud the possessions he would
have to leave behind.
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Haitians wearied by spiraling unrest and gang violence turned out in
huge numbers Tuesday to choose a new president and parliament and
perhaps put their impoverished Caribbean homeland on the path to some
prosperity and peace.
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Even before there was a space program, Florida had a piece of it –
it was the site of the imaginary moonshot described in 1865 by Jules Verne.
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Within sight of the Florida Keys, the Cubans’ homemade boat had
sprung a bad leak and was in danger of sinking.
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As Florida International University’s spring semester got underway,
office 335A was locked, and a policewoman stood guard outside.
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U.S. officials on Monday accused a Florida university professor and
his wife of acting as Cuban spies for more than two decades –
sending Fidel Castro’s intelligence agency encrypted reports about
American officials,
FBI agents and anti-Castro groups and attempting
to recruit young Cuban Americans as fellow agents.
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