On 5/4/06, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
>
> > So how was it in Florida in the 1980s and 90s if you
> > happen to know.
>
> Looks like a blip in the late 80s:
>
> http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/9596/stats/ia8.html
>
> This doesn't exactly answer your question (since we were talking about
> total number in prison at a given time, which is kind of a slippery
> number anyway due to sentence-length issues) but it looks to me like
> there was a flurry of activity there for a while and now it's back
> where it was before. On the other hand, Florida has about 3x the
> number of prisoners now as it did in the late 80s. 1987 = 32,764 ...
> 2006 is nearing 90,000.
>
> So I guess you should stop repeating what you heard :)
>
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