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Many women across Florida will not celebrate Mother's Day at a church, a park or a fancy restaurant with their children today.  Instead, they'll drive through several counties, enter a fenced-off property, have their purses searched and raise their hands for a pat-down at one of the state's 57 correctional facilities. Their sons and daughters are among the more than 87,000 inmates imprisoned within the walls of the Florida Department of Corrections.  "As a mother, you go there for love, but it's always a sad time for me," said Lisa Dames of Hobe Sound, whose three sons have all been incarce...

STUART — Lisa Dames started her nonprofit with a vision, some office space and the inspiration of her late son. But she launched Reverse The Door in Stuart in late 2019 without any office equipment.  Her nonprofit's mission is to help people with nonviolent felony records obtain work and education, as well as assist the families of the incarcerated person.  "I was lacking everything," said Dames, who previously was the president of The Banner Lake Club, which provides youth programs in Hobe Sound. "I was working off my personal laptop."  That changed last year when Comcast helped Dames...