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SEND YOUR KIDS TO CAMP

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 The $9,000 tents can each house up to 22 prisonersASSOCIATED PRESSFlorida Turns To Tents To Deal With Rising Inmate Numbers"Some prison inmates in Florida - which locked up more new ones last year than any other state, according to a federal report released Thursday - soon could be living in tents.Justice Department statistics show the overall Florida prison population increased by 5,250 inmates in 2007, the most recent numbers available, to bring the state's total nearly to 100,000. Those 5,250 new inmates are more than twice the number locked up last year by the next closest state, Kentucky, though Florida's overall population is more than four times as big as Kentucky's..."BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICSStudy: Prisoners in 2007                                      BROWARD COUNTY: MAKING A DIFFERENCEcontinue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on December 13, 2008 (boomark / email).