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Florida Justice System Takes
Turn Toward Rehabilitation
May 24, 2007
News Summary Courtesy of Join
Together Online
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In a major policy shift, the Florida
Department of Corrections is making rehabilitation
of offenders a major policy goal, including providing
addiction treatment to inmates with alcohol and other
drug problems.
The Palm
Beach Post reported May 23 that the administration
of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist -- nicknamed "Chain
Gang Charlie" for his tough-on-crime reputation
as a state lawmaker -- announced an anti-recidivism
plan that aims to increase addiction treatment services
from 19 percent of the prison population to 25 percent.
The plan, which aims to cut recidivism
from 30 percent to 20 percent or lower by 2012, also
includes new job-training alliances, literacy education,
post-release mental-health counseling and links to social
services like addiction counseling, and an initiative
to get ex-offenders driver's licenses or other state
IDs so they can get jobs.
"It's time to stop doing things
the way we've been doing it. We've got to stop locking
them up and throwing away the key," said Hieteenthia
Hayes, head of the reentry program initiated by Florida
Corrections Secretary Jim McDonough, formerly the state's
drug czar.
Crist, a Republican, said, "If
you just look at ... [my] nickname alone, I can understand
that it could be a little confusing. But it really goes
down to fundamental fairness. If you believe in fundamental
fairness for people who have made a mistake, a serious
one, perhaps, and have the opportunity to rehabilitate
themselves, I think that's fundamentally fair. If on
the other hand you have people who have been terribly
unkind to innocent Floridians, then the notion of appropriate
punishment is not inappropriate."
McDonough said that education and substance-abuse
programs would be expanded, saying they have proven
their effectiveness. But he said the same was not true
of faith-based prison programs, which had been pushed
by former Gov. Jeb Bush. McDonough said that about two-thirds
of Florida inmates need addiction treatment, but less
than 20 percent receive help.
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