Comments on: Senate’s Budget Chief Says Scott Prison Cuts Worth Considering

By: Rick Dailey

Rick Dailey — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:14:06 +0000

Florida has some of the highest sentencing in the United States .Just by cutting from what is now 85 percent of time served for nonviolent crimnals to 65 percent would save millions per year .

By: dee

dee — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:43:59 +0000

Maybe we should give the New Gov. a chance .
Let him tell us what He would like to do.
Lets not just run are mouths, lets get all the facts first.
And as for letting Judges to give sentencing ,are there any out there that will hand out death sentences that the taxs payers are not paying for- for the rest of there lives you know 20-39 years later.,Is this not a reason for why prison are over crowed because the taxs payers like supporting criminals that kill..
Don’t get me started on this matter it makes me sick that we pay to surrport KILLERS..

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:44:48 +0000

REGARDING:
“State and county prisons are being run short handed because of current budget. You risk putting more Correctional Officers in danger from criminals”

arm ALL the inmates, let them guard each other, pull all Corrections officers out of the line of fire and see how the problem solves itself.

David for simple solutions

By: shae

shae — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:46:32 +0000

State and county prisons are being run short handed because of current budget. You risk putting more Correctional Officers in danger from criminals already in the the system when you budget so low that those officers have to work often alone without backup readily available. Now the talk is to put them even more stretched. Please Florida government, remember that jails are full of CRIMINALS that don’t mind braking the law and hurting others in the process. Please think about ALL aspects of what your doing before you start cutting much needed programs. There’s so much more to this then money, we’re talking about people’s lives here.

By: PolythenePam

PolythenePam — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:21:39 +0000

“Particularly worrisome to Fasano is that Scott’s plan to increase the privatization of prisons calls for eliminating 1,690 jobs, including 619 corrections officers.”

Here we go, lets cut jobs so we can save money. How about putting sentencing back in the hands of judges so they may choose some common sense punishments for non violent offenders.

Private prisons only puts money in that one business owners hands. Get the prisoners busy building a prison for the state. (just an idea)
We have alot of options if we use our imaginations, cutting jobs so that we end up giving the “business” to a private individual doesn’t make sense. If private prisons are such a good business model why don’t state prisons use them as a model or example and operate that way also?