http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-locdrugcuts09100903oct09,0,548224.storyugh, this makes me so sick. jeb saves a few pennies with this debacle, and georgie with his hundred billion dollar sandbox bully act is depriving our country of the last cash we could possibly use to save ourselves from inhumanity here at home...
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Help for drug addicts just got a lot less likely
By Stephanie Erickson
Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted October 9, 2003
A lack of drug-treatment programs is forcing judges to incarcerate an increasing number of inmates while at the same time in-prison treatment is being slashed.
In a state where almost a third of those entering Florida prisons last year had been convicted of drug offenses, the Department of Corrections has significantly reduced state programs to help those who are released and cut in-prison treatment at all but 13 of Florida's 55 prisons.
Corrections officials blame the state Legislature for the cuts, which take effect Nov. 1 and are expected to save taxpayers $13 million, reducing by more than a third the number of beds at 20 residential treatment programs throughout the state.
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read the rest of it (not too long). it's horrible.
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