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Our official preview is up, tonight’s one year anniversary celebration is set to kick off with a steel cage match for the NXT Tag Team Championships! Reigning two-time champions, Pretty Deadly, have their sights set on the Creed Brothers. USA Today Network-Florida government accountability reporter Douglas Soule is based in Tallahassee, Fla.Welcome back to NXT 2.0! Your host tonight is the best play-by-play reporter in sports entertainment today, Mike Hogan 1.0 We’ve got a great show lined up for us tonight so go ahead and bookmark this page as it’ll transition to LIVE results coverage shortly before broadcast. “We trust the Budget Commission will pursue a smart and economical solution instead of wasting tax-payer dollars without working toward a long-term solution.” “If we can get serious about sentencing reform, reinstate parole and save money by placing people who do not require lockup into home detention, we can solve this problem in a smart, cost-effective, and humane way,” said Delvin Davis, regional policy analyst for the SPLC Action Fund. The Southern Poverty Law Center, in a statement released Friday, said that Florida “locks up too many people who should never have been incarcerated.” “It is smart to have conversations about the resources that we are sending in our correctional system, and where it might be smart and effective to redirect those resources towards programs that actually help heal communities and prevent crime from happening in the first place,” Driskell said. “What would happen then to our correctional facilities, and why would we be trying to spread our National Guard so thin?” she said.ĭuring the commission meeting, Jennison of Florida National Guard said they would still have “full capacity” to support Floridians in that event.ĭriskell also warned that National Guard members may not have the same training as the correctional officers.īeyond the staffing crisis, Democrats and others say criminal justice system reforms should be considered. Democrats worry National Guard won’t be available during a hurricaneĭriskell said she and other Democrats worried about having National Guard members at prisons when they may be needed during a hurricane emergency. “The best case scenario, even if the governor went through with this plan, is that we would be back in the exact same position nine months later,” Driskell said.

The state plan sets aside more than $31 million to “assist the FDC at facilities for nine months or until the FDC determines it no longer needs National Guard assistance.” It said they wouldn’t be used for the direct supervision of those incarcerated “except where such supervision occurs as a normal part of manning control stations or when required in an emergency situation pertaining to safety and security.” Prison labor: A century later, unpaid prison labor continues to power Florida Pay, benefit boost: Short on staff, Florida Department of Corrections boosts employee pay and benefits Fentrice Driskell, the incoming state House Democratic leader, during a press conference with other Democrats.

“Florida has ignored and ignored this problem and underfunded this agency for years,” said Rep. TALLAHASSEE - The Joint Legislative Budget Commission voted Friday to approve sending Florida National Guard members - at least temporarily - to state prisons to address significant understaffing.Įven before Friday’s vote, several House Democrats and others called the plan a short-term band-aid to solve a crisis.

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