Businesses says “No More Prisons”
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Updated: 8:42 PM Jul 8, 2009
Businesses says “No More Prisons”
Wednesday morning began with 100,552 inmates locked up in Florida prisons. The state also has or will soon have 11 thousand more beds under construction at a cost of almost a billion dollars. Florida’s major business groups are saying enough is enough.
Posted: 8:42 PM Jul 8, 2009
Reporter: Mike Vasilinda
Businesses Against New Prisons
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Posted by: IMConcerned Location: pcb on Jul 10, 2009 at 07:15 AM

Here are my two experiences: 1. Male & Female break into my home, steal $1000s of stuff. They are caught and found to be multiple repeat offenders--theft & drugs. Had we locked them up and thrown away the key the fist time I wouldn't be in this situation. 2. Hired an offender on the work release program--incarcerated during the night. Was a great employee-- learned quickly, helpful, got the job done. Two days after he was released, parents bought him new car for his new job. By the end of the week he missed work, pawned the car and back on drugs. Here was a person who was only good when he had to be to slide through the system. Another person that we need to lock up and throw away the key. Until we can find a better way to deal with these people, the good citizens need to be protected from them by locking them up. I agree with Billy about the tents but then you get all the civil rights people worked up....
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Posted by: Debbie Location: Florida on Jul 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM

Gregory Where have you been?They do not make it comfortable for them.Sandra you are so right.The first time drug offenders get more time than murders and child molsters.What is wrong with this picture?It is who you know and who you blow.
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Posted by: Gregory Location: LH on Jul 9, 2009 at 03:04 PM

The punishment should fit the crime. i.e: A women and her children (or man and his children) do not benefit by the absent parent being held in jail for 4 years! That is just insane. I have seen it happen. You do not pay your support, then create a program that will help you along with working. Non-violent drug offenders..treatment programs and so on. This creates jobs, more room in prison for people who really need to be there. It's time to think outside the box. Stop making prison so comfortable. Our highest gang rate is in the prison system and it's not like being in prison is stopping some of these offenders. Prisoners are able to put a hit out on someone, bring in drugs. I knew a guy who would get busted just so he could get put back in the system just so he could hook up with his connection on the inside. WTH is that all about? We allow this to happen. Sit in a Turkish prison for a few years,They won't go back.
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Posted by: Billy Location: springfield on Jul 9, 2009 at 10:18 AM

Why not instead of building new costly prisons, look at the prison camp idea where they stay in tents under guard and are made to work for their priviledges?It would cost much less than a new custom built prison and you would have fewer returnees,due to harsh conditions.
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Posted by: Sandra Location: Florida on Jul 9, 2009 at 06:39 AM

Having first hand experience, I know that prisons are overcrowded. The number of beds available is a lot less than it looks because the D.O.C. has a sneaky way of moving inmates around and while those inmates are in transport that makes it seem more beds are available. As a first time non-violent drug offender, I was greatly helped by the faith-based program. I was really surprised at the number of inmates I met who were there on such minor offenses, and also the number of inmates that were good people who had made a bad mistake in their lives and yet are serving too hard of time and gaining nothing by it.
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Posted by: Mandy Location: Fla on Jul 9, 2009 at 06:07 AM

OMG!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE PRISONER???? OK so that mean when more peoples come to prisoner men and women will have to sleep on that nasty floor.
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Posted by: BULL Location: FLORIDA on Jul 8, 2009 at 04:13 PM

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOPE, WELL MOST OF THEM GAVE THAT UP FOR A GET RICH IDEA I CAN SELL DOPE AND GET A LOT OF MONEY IN A FEW HOURS A NIGHT OR I CAN FLIP BURGERS FOR 7 DOLLARS A HOUR AND NOT BE A BIG MAN AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ALL THESE PROGRAMS ARE NOT WORKING AND I MEAN NONE BECAUSE LAW ENFORCEMENT WANT NUMBERS NOT THE BIG MAN THATS BRING IN THE BIG LOADS. AND THEN YOU HAVE AN INMATE TEACHING BUSINESS YEP AND THAT BUSINESS HE'S TEACHING IS PROBALLY WHAT HE FAILED AT (TEACHING THEM WHERE HE MAYNOT HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT IF HE HAD WENT ANOTHER WAY).
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