http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/14/2642075/bill-to-privatize-prisons-dies.html

Privatization of correctional facilities is bad. It leads to the owners of prisons putting pressure on legislators and justice officials to make more convictions so they can make a profit. This is bad.

Florida won't do it. This is good.

In order to be able to afford to control their own correctional services, they have to make cuts. This is understandable.

What did they cut? Their salaries? Raise taxes on business? Streamline their law enforcement or judicial activities? Nope. Education and Health Care. In order to be able to afford to contain criminals they catch, they have to create an environment in which young people are more prone to criminal activity and poor people may give in to 'illegal' drug use in order to manage certain types of ailments. Good idea. Keep the prisons, cut funding to services that help to minimize criminal activity.

I'm so ready for them to take away the Second.