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posted by The Vidiot @ 6:14 PM Permalink

Once-homeless woman spends $1,500 bailing out nearly 2 dozen Broward inmates
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Beverly Johnson has been in jail and doesn't like it. On Wednesday, the formerly homeless woman revisited Broward County Jail, this time as a liberator, spending $1,641 to pay the bonds of two-dozen inmates being held on minor charges.

"I did this because I spent time in jail and know what it's like. It's awful in there," the 54-year-old former social worker said.
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The people Johnson set free were typically homeless and unable to pay bonds of $25 to $100 on charges like trespassing, loitering or disorderly conduct. Those were the same type of charges for which Johnson was arrested by Fort Lauderdale police some 20 times while on the street from November 2001 to June 2003, she said.

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