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FL: Deals keep prisons open

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Florida lawmakers come up with way to keep prisons open By Karen Voyles Published: Friday, April 2, 2010 at 8:34 a.m. Florida lawmakers have apparently come up with a way to keep all 59 major prisons open across the state and likely even open up with a new, private prison in the Panhandle. Late Wednesday, Senate leaders reached a budget deal that will avoid closing two state prisons and restore $20 million to the budget for the Department of Corrections. State prison officials said the money will keep prisons open and avoid layoffs. An earlier budget plan called for closing two unidentified major state prisons and shifting inmates from the shuttered facilities to a new prison scheduled to open near Pensacola. State officials said the budget deal will make it possible for the new prison to be run by a private company...continue to full post

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