Felony Miami

Felony Miami explores the disparities in the criminal justice system and the intersection of those disparities and the arts. In this exploration, Felony Miami seeks to educate, entertain, enlighten and contribute towards the improvement and fairness of the system. Felony Miami intends to do this by bringing together thought leaders, decision makers the system and in the arts to examine the current state of being, in which the arts can contribute to this exploration and improvement.

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Trauma, hate, distrust, fear, frustration, tears, disgust, abuse, resentment. These are some of the effects of doing time. For every Malcolm X, there are ten million felons whose names you’ll never know, who never shake their past. Society breeds impropriety; and careless citizens through the infected soul of American democracy.

Broke, busted, tapped out, lost in the woods, dissolute, naked in the winter wiped out, over lev’d, indigent, penniless, gone fishin’, in the poor house, itinerant, rambling, povertized, compromised, chaptered, scrambling, crumbling … Bankrupt! Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let’s air it out.

Four walls, steel bars, and a saline drip. Concrete bed, bologna sandwich, convulsions, embolism, heart rate speeding like a freight train through your chest plate. The fear is gripping and real. It's not just that you are going to jail, it's that you might have a medical issue. And the thought of going into the prison health care system is causing half the symptoms. Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let's air it out.

Private prisons are the scourge of civilization. The food is awful, the water tastes like it came from a gutter in Flint, Michigan, and sending an email costs more than a Rolls Royce lease payment. The U.S. the number one spot for the most people in cages. Where there is injustice for one, there is injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami. Let's air it out

There’s a reason that South Florida is the fraud capital of America, and it’s all built on a house of cards that the contractor skipped out on after an all cash transfer from your bank account to their sense of moral bankruptcy. Where there is injustice for one, there’s injustice for all. Welcome to Felony Miami, let’s air it out.

Productivity is usually a good thing. But not when it comes to mass incarceration. In fact, the harassing, and stalking, and arresting, and incarcerating, and ruining the records of those who are guilty of victimless so-called crimes, is one of the greatest problems in America today. Today we invite three veteran attorneys, one of whom is running for circuit court judge. to help us understand the problems and the solutions.

Lies. Truth. Some people live it, some people tell it, and some people mix both into one and don't do either very well.

When it comes to the criminal justice system, it's been said that there are three sides to every story: His, hers, and the truth.

No matter which category you fall into, there's one thing you should never do: if you're on the other side of the interrogation table, don't talk. Not a single word, other than, "Lawyer."

From Medellín to Mexico; Panama to Bogotá; and Sinaloa to South Miami, in the 1980's, the South American drug trade began its assault on the shores of the USA. It brought money, violence, and really bad bad-guys. Enter the DEA, a force of highly skilled and seasoned law enforcement officers with one goal: take down the drug traffickers, corner drug dealers and users, and stop at nothing until they were all locked up. Today, we hear the WHY of it from three of Miami's finest.

There’s blood in the mud, cocaine in the evidence room, and millions of pages of arrest reports. To say that there’s been a lot of crime committed in Miami is the understatement of the century. When it comes to solving crimes, and closing cases out three guests today are experts in the field. Real life Miami vice investigators