Get Tough on Crime

Warehousing of human Beings

This is the Florida versionof ‘get tough on crime’

• A recent article in The Gainesville Sun said that “a person could end up serving more time for drugs than for manslaughter.”

• There are no anomalies or inconsistencies in the law.

• Case in point is Hope Sykes: It is easier to entrap a 19-year-old female for selling 25 OxyContin pills than addressing the addiction process with its educational component. The payoff is a mandatory 15-year sentence.

• This 15-year sentence will cost taxpayers $379,417. A portion of this money will be recycled into the campaign coffers of our elected officials.

This is the Florida version

• The average inmate goes to prison for a five year sentence

• The average inmate has a 6th grade education

• 60 or so percent of the inmates have an addiction

• It costs the state of Florida $140,000 to send a women to prison for five years

Florida has the third largest prison system in the nation

• Authorized positions 27,736

• Inmates in prison 102,232

• Offenders under supervision 152,928

• Budget $2.3 billion

Florida now warehouses human beings because it is caught in a big, growing problem that outstrips its resources and overwhelms its

capacity to respond….

It happened because we “got tough on crime” and our solution, nation-wide, is the warehousing of

human beings….

Bathrooms

....warehousing of human beings

Pregnant Women’s Warehouse (Dorm)

Think in terms of spending 12 to 16 hours a day on a shelf

Imagine spending between 12 and 16 hours a day for five years on this bed

The freestanding single prison bunk has a pan

of 10-gauge steel, which measures 27" by 79

3/8". The pan is perforated with eight 1"

diameter holes for ventilation. Front and rear

flanges are formed up 2", with a 1" hem. The

legs are 18" in height 2" x 2" x 1/8" steel angle

iron. The bunk comes with a 2" by 2" 10-gauge

steel plate with a 1/2" hole for bolting it to the

floor. The anchors are not by PSI, but all joints

are welded and ground smooth. Finishing for

this metal prison bunk bed includes chemical

degreaser and rust-inhibitive primer. There are

many bunk options available, including an open

front shelf, an under bunk drawer, and special

order custom sizes.

Imagine Spending five years with everything you own in a drawer like this

DESCRIPTION: UNDER BUNK STEEL DRAWERBody: Formed 14 ga. steel body, front & flanges for slides.Slides: 10 ga steel slides, welded to underside of bunk pan (2 per drawer).Hasp: 1" x 2"x 10 ga. steel with lock hole, welded to face of bunk pan, so hasp slides through slot in front plate of drawer.Pull: 1/2" lip @ underside of drawer forms a drawer pull.Fully welded construction.Stop: 2" x 2" x 3/16" steel angle bolted to underside of pan so drawer is not removable.Finish: Chemically degreased & 1 coat rust inhibitive primer.

Imagine this is your mattress for five years

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Cover:

1.) Calendared*, flexible, PVC film.2.) Color – unobstructed window clear3.) Thickness 20 Mil4.) Anti-microbial: MRSA Resistant5.) Anti-mildew6.) Abrasion Resistant – ASTM D3389-05: Over 6000 Cycles. Our Competitors advertise 190 cycles. This means our vinyl is 34 times more abrasion resistant.7.) Flex Fatigue: In House Testing shows our material withstands 8 million to 12 million flexes. Our Competitors' material withstand approximately 1 million flexes. What this means to you is a much longer service life with our material.8.) Cleans with mild soap and water.

Fiber Core:

1.) 3 Inch Firm 1.5 lb per cubic ft Recyclable,Earth Friendly Polyester Fiber

2.) Vertically oriented3.) Hypoallergenic

We do have current solutions….

Pill Line

Recidivism Rate in Florida Prisonsis growing, not declining

1989 35%

2007 47%

CRIMINALITYTRAINING

DRUGOFFENSE

PRISON

How we convert nonviolent to violent offenders

VIOLENCE

RECIDIVISM PROVIDESTRAINERS

IN CRIMINALITY

Admissions for Violent Vs. Drug OffensesCompared Over Six Years

28.3

27.3

26.3

27.4

28.2

29.13

29.929.7

30.6

29.3

27.4

26.48

FY 2004-5 FY 2005-6 FY 2006-7 FY 2007-8 FY 2008-9 FY 2009-10

PRISON ADMISSIONS BY TYPE OF CRIME

Violent Offenses Drug Offenses

FY 2009-10 Total Admissions 36,992

DRUGOFFENSES

VIOLENT CRIMES

Violent Crime Rates in Florida and US (1960 to 2008)

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State Year Population Index Florida 2008 4 3Florida 2007 4 6Florida 2006 4 7Florida 2005 4 10

Florida continues its climb unabated to the top of the heap in criminality

January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower

warned the U.S. of something he described as a threat to democratic government.

He called this threat the "military-industrial complex", a union of defense

contractors and the armed forces.

Eisenhower said, in part:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of

unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-

industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power

exists, and will persist."

50 years later a new threat has arisen out of an

attempt to combat a threat to our nations well being

This threat is the "military-industrial complex", a union of defense

contractors and the armed forces.

Eisenhower rephrased, in part:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of

unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-

industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power

exists, and will persist."

Prison Industrial Complex

Prison

Prison

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