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| Fort Myers prisoner plans hunger strike |
| By news-press.com- Janine Zeitlin |
| Published: 05/04/2016 |
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A Fort Myers man sentenced to 60 years for selling a small amount of cocaine to an ex-girlfriend planned to start a hunger strike today in a desperate appeal for early release. Michael Edwards, 53, has been in a state prison more than two decades and is not scheduled to be released until 2042. He would be nearly 80 years old. “At 1 p.m., I began a hunger strike to make the world aware of the inhumane and outrageously excessive 60-year sentence with no possibility of parole that the state of Florida is forcing me to serve,” said Edwards from South Bay Correctional Facility in a recorded message shared with The News-Press. Read More. |
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