So does this include city jails, county jails or only state jails?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jordan Hayes</b> <<a href="mailto:jmhayes@j-o-r-d-a-n.com">jmhayes@speakeasy.net
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> So how was it in Florida in the 1980s and 90s if you<br>> happen to know.
<br><br>Looks like a blip in the late 80s:<br><br><a href="http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/9596/stats/ia8.html">http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/9596/stats/ia8.html</a><br><br>This doesn't exactly answer your question (since we were talking about
<br>total number in prison at a given time, which is kind of a slippery<br>number anyway due to sentence-length issues) but it looks to me like<br>there was a flurry of activity there for a while and now it's back<br>where it was before. On the other hand, Florida has about 3x the
<br>number of prisoners now as it did in the late 80s. 1987 = 32,764 ...<br>2006 is nearing 90,000.<br><br>So I guess you should stop repeating what you heard :)<br><br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">
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