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Notable report on the impact of the prison economy in the Sunshine State

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this post at Grits for Breakfast, I found this fascinating local article from Florida headlined "Budget reality hits GOP's get-tough-on-crime stance." Here are some highlights: With the state short on cash and prison beds, Republicans in the Florida Legislature are being forced to reassess the tough-on-crime mentality that has permeated their politics for years.  Florida's prison population cracked 100,000 this year, and state prison officials expect to need more and more prison beds during the next five years as the number of people incarcerated swells past 120,000. Orange and Pinellas counties led the state in that growth rate in 2008, with Orange's new incarceration rate growing 15.2 percent to 1,868 new prisoners. The single largest category of growth in crimes was burglary, state records show...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 16, 2009 (boomark / email).