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MEDIA 5/13

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SENTINELMike Mayo: Lean times all around, but Florida prisons are booming"The numbers are startling. Five years ago, Florida's prison population was 77,316. By August, the Department of Corrections expects the figure to top 100,000, an increase of 28 percent from 2003...That far outpaces the general population growth.It would be one thing if other big states have had similar prison growth. But the two states with larger prison populations, Texas and California, had shrinkage last year. So did New York...Of the 3,307 people sent to prison from Broward last year, 537 (16.2 percent) were for cocaine possession, according to the Broward State Attorney's Office.Broward sent more people to prison last year than every county except Hillsborough (4,000)...continue to full post

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