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Budget crunch forces Florida prisons to feed inmates for less

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Budget crunch forces Florida prisons to feed inmates for less By Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Monday, February 9, 2009 St. Petersburg Times MADISON ? Three times a day, the inmates at Madison Correctional Institution discover what a budget deficit tastes like. The scene in the prison chow hall in this quaint North Florida town is repeated across the state as it returns to in-house food service and struggles to cut costs. While the inmate population is growing, the Legislature is cutting spending in the nation's third-largest state prison system. Florida is now coping with the effects of a failed and expensive food-privatization venture of former Gov. Jeb Bush. In 2001, Florida turned over most prison food operations to Aramark Corp...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).