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on Monday as part of a tour attacking Democrats for enacting “woke” policies that encourage crime and weaken law enforcement as he recruited police officers to move to the Sunshine State.
“As they are defunding police and attacking police in these other jurisdictions, the state of Florida has shown them that we got your back and we support what you’re doing,” DeSantis told about 200 people in a half-hour speech promoted by the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police at a Knights of Columbus hall.
Nelson Morris, a development manager at Restore Justice, a criminal justice reform group, went to prison when he was 17 for a double murder and was released 29 years later. Restore Justice advocated for legislation to abolish natural life in prison for minors.Prison sentences that give inmates convicted at a young age no hope of ever getting out will soon be a thing of the past in Illinois.
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