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Florida needs more education, not more prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Florida needs more education, not more prisons BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Editor?s note: Below is a reprint of a Dec. 30 editorial in The (Lakeland) Ledger, courtesy of The Associated Press. Although Florida?s overall population is about 16 percent black, its prison population is more than 50 percent black, according to statistics from the Florida Department of Corrections and the U.S. Census Bureau. This month, Florida's prison population exceeded 100,000 for the first time. Only California and Texas have more inmates. And Florida Corrections Secretary Walter McNeil says the Department of Corrections may have to put up tents to house all the inmates. McNeil said at the current growth trend, Florida will need 19 new prisons in the next five years...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 10, 2009 (boomark / email).