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Smart Justice: Recommendations for Florida Criminal justice Reform - click here for the Collins Center For Public Policy's February 2010 report.  The report is a MUST READ for anyone who actually cares, so please take the time after gorging on today's gossip and snark.From the report:"Over the past thirteen years, the share of violent offenses accounting for prison admissions decreased by 28 percent. During that same period, the share of admissions for ?other? offenses, i.e., offenses that are nonviolent, are not property crimes, and are not drug crimes increased by 189 percent. One of those offenses was driving with a suspended license -- the very charge that recently landed a 78-year-old grandmother in the Broward County jail for 15 days...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).