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Sex Offenders Set Up Camp in Miami Florida: The Julia Tuttle Causeway Becomes a Colony. Politicians Pass the Buck.
Loaded on June 15, 2008
by Isaiah Thompson
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2008, page 1
Another one showed up last night. Around 10 — just before curfew — a car rolled in under the bridge and the newcomer got out with his wife. She hugged and kissed him goodbye, pulled the car out along the road, and disappeared into a sea of headlights. The new ...
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Discrimination,
Sex Offender Registration,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Sex Offender Residence,
Probation,
Zoning.
Location:
Florida.
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