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Florida can't pay for new penalties, prisons

More states are rethinking their incarceration policies because of the current economic downturn. Most recently Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel, has run up against the limits of their ability to pay for state prisons.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. ..."Our prisons are growing faster than anything else in our state," said Senate criminal-justice budget chief Victor Crist, a Tampa Republican...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).