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Florida Paradox of Prisons, Politics and Profits
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1997, page 9
For the past three years the Florida state legislature has surfed the get-tough wave, enacting laws to clamp down on Florida's 65,000 state prisoners. They have enacted laws to remove weights and recreation equipment, eliminate funding for prison TV sets, and were quick to follow Alabama's lead in resurrecting chain …
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Private Prisons,
Prison Labor,
Chain Gangs,
Exercise,
Prisoner Privileges,
State Legislation.
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Florida.
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