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  • Published on August 31, 2021 - 15:25 GMT

    During Prison Covid Lockdown Florida Inmate Writes Criminal Justice Reform Bill

    SORRENTO, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, August 31, 2021 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- After almost 25 years in prison, Florida inmate Douglas Gilding was fed up with the gridlock in Tallahassee over criminal justice reform. So, being a trained paralegal who also teaches G.E.D. classes for other inmates and trains service dogs for disabled veterans in a prison VetDog program, Douglas decided to write a bill himself. In particular, he had been watching as other states changed or eliminated their felony-murder laws, but …

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