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News: Florida’s Prisoners Get Little Help Once Released
By admin | On June 24, 2013 In Smart Justice in FloridaTampa Bay Times – June 25, 2013 Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Every single day all over Florida, the heavy steel doors of a prison swing open and an inmate walks free after completing a sentence. As many as 100 are set free each day. They swear they will never be back, but many do […]
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News: State hopes to privatize more work release centers
By admin | On June 22, 2013 In Smart Justice in FloridaTampa Bay Times – June 22, 2013 By Kameel Stanley and Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writers The leaders of Florida’s prison system believe work release is one of the best ways to help inmates succeed in the outside world. But funding the nation’s third-largest prison system has been challenging in recent years given state budget […]
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Op-ed: A Conservative Case for Prison Reform
By admin | On June 18, 2013 In Smart Justice ElsewhereNew York Times – June 9, 2013 By RICHARD A. VIGUERIE MANASSAS, Va. — CONSERVATIVES should recognize that the entire criminal justice system is another government spending program fraught with the issues that plague all government programs. Criminal justice should be subject to the same level of skepticism and scrutiny that we apply to any […]
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