Florida’s Big Growth Trend: New Prisons
Friday, April 2nd, 2010A recent Miami Herald article discusses Florida’s tough sentencing policies and recommendations for change by Florida TaxWatch, an unrelenting champion of fiscal conservatism in state government. Will Florida follow behind famously tough-minded states who have decided that warehousing low-level criminals was at once ineffective and very expensive? Will the dire need for support and an increase of investment in halfway houses, work release programs and other innovations for non-violent offenders be recognized and championed ?


