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THEY SAY THE DARKEST HOUR/ IS RIGHT BEFORE THE DAWN*

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MIAMI HERALDChange sought in Florida prison system"A call by Florida's most powerful business lobby to halt prison construction and reform the criminal justice system is gaining surprising traction among policymakers in the wake of a deepening budget crisis and growing evidence that building new prison beds will not reduce crime...Staying the course, coalition members wrote, will lead to ``too many non-violent individuals being incarcerated, too many prisons needing to be built at astounding public cost [and] too many young people moving from the juvenile justice system into the adult justice system.''Florida still will need prisons for violent felons, (Bob) Butterworth said. But spending $1 billion over the next decade to build new prisons for drug addicts and people with mental illness, he added, is ``nuts...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).