Ana Ceballos

May 17, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The first-term governor, a former U.S. House member, said Congress' failure to pass immigration reform should not be a burden for Floridians.

By Ana Ceballos

4 minute read

May 15, 2019 | Daily Business Review

State Corrections Secretary Mark Inch wants to start the program at the Northwest Florida Reception Center in the Washington County community of Chipley.

By Ana Ceballos

4 minute read

May 09, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Florida's prison system is “widely overusing” the practice of solitary confinement to manage inmates, sometimes locking them up in cells that are no bigger than a parking spaces over often-minor infractions, according to Shalini Goel Agarwal, a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

By Ana Ceballos

4 minute read

May 03, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The governor praised the final passage of the bill by the House and Senate after emotional debate in both chambers during the final days of the legislative session.

By Ana Ceballos

5 minute read

May 01, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Top House and Senate budget writers have agreed to provide $750,000 to the Florida Commission on Offender Review during the upcoming fiscal year to help with the investigative portion of the process that leads to decisions by the Board of Executive Clemency.

By Ana Ceballos

3 minute read

May 01, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The sanctuary city issue has been one of the most controversial issues of this year's legislative session. Such proposals have died in recent years in the Legislature.

By Ana Ceballos

3 minute read

April 29, 2019 | Daily Business Review

In a nod to one of Gov. Ron DeSantis' top legislative priorities, a sharply divided Senate voted to force local law enforcement agencies to fully comply with federal immigration authorities, and to punish officials who fail to do so.

By Ana Ceballos

5 minute read

April 25, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The measure, if passed by the Senate and signed into law by the governor, would ban so-called sanctuary city policies and punish any local officials who limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

By Ana Ceballos

3 minute read

April 22, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Roughly 20,000 to 40,000 prisoners will be affected, according to the Florida Justice Institute, which sued the state in 2017 after inmates said they had been denied proper hepatitis C treatment.

By Ana Ceballos

3 minute read

April 16, 2019 | Daily Business Review

At the request of the governor, all 12 university presidents signed the resolution. It says institutions will not “stifle the dissemination of any idea,” even when individuals find that speech to be “abhorrent.”

By Ana Ceballos

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