Okeechobee Correctional News Today

Phyllis Powell of Ocala, Florida is looking for work. She cleans houses and has been for 54 years despite severe scoliosis. But she needs to take on more now, at age 74, because she can’t pay her bills anymore. She spends at least $450 a month supporting her incarcerated son Steven.

Miami Herald Lourdes Losada mourns the loss of her college roommate, Maria Teresa Rovirosa, who is still missing, at the memorial wall for the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside on Thursday, July 8, 2021. ‘She was just a great person. ... She would take what she had and give it to everybody,’ Losada said. The future and healing for the Surfside community. Did a murder and a mistaken identity lead to a wrongful conviction and life sentence? Plus, Miami’s 125th bir...

But the state revoked their licenses on March 19 because it accused Kaiser and Wilson of failing to report dead tortoises, overstocking pens for the tortoises and not maintaining a pen that was in disrepair. FWC then reinstated their licenses on April 7 in a brief letter in which it described its staff revocation of the permits as a “procedural error.”  The FWC put Kaiser and Wilson out of business without any notice or a hearing or a chance to question or challenge the action, said Kennet...