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originally posted by: spirit_horse
a reply to: vonclod
$350 per day is what they get to keep you in the pen in Florida. $127,750/year! That is why the private prisons are getting in on the action. BTW, last I checked that was back in 2000, so it could be more today.
originally posted by: spirit_horse
a reply to: vonclod
$350 per day is what they get to keep you in the pen in Florida. $127,750/year! That is why the private prisons are getting in on the action. BTW, last I checked that was back in 2000, so it could be more today.
IN FISCAL YEAR 2010, the Florida Department of Corrections (FLDOC) had $2.05 billion in prison expenditures. However, the state also had $29.4 million in prison-related costs outside the department’s budget. The total cost of Florida’s prisons—to incarcerate an average daily population of 101,324—was therefore $2.08 billion, of which 1.4 percent were costs outside the corrections budget.
originally posted by: spirit_horse
a reply to: LOSTinAMERICA
Most assuredly! Imagine the education that investing in these people in prison for BS would have done for their lives. People don't realize the money behind the beast. The War on Whatever Crime is keeping lawyers, judges, police, all well paid and if you don't have cash to pay up front you get prison time that they collect on the backside from the taxpayers.
I have seen so much in my life I could write a couple of books, but I would not make it to see them published I am sure of that fact.
originally posted by: Nyiah
a reply to: mOjOm
The area is full of lovely beaches, Anna Maria Island itself, just down the road (literal road) has a gorgeous public beach that I've been to who knows how many times. This s*** is nothing I want to see on the sand. Nothing anyone wants to see out on the beach. for that matter. We're not talking one of the area topless beaches, we're talking something entirely different & something no one wants to see without prior knowledge.