Florida could start sending prisoners out of state

Still no additional blog entries from Ted from prison. I have some older unposted entries that he wrote in jail and will start posting those or some video clips of him when he was younger if I don't receive anything in the mail tomorrow.

In the meantime, someone sent me the following article from the Associated Press today. Interestingly enough, Ted actually parked Governor Crist's car at a grand opening of a resort on Clearwater Beach where he worked as a valet.

MIAMI - People sentenced for a Florida crime could someday do their time thousands of miles away.

A law signed by Gov. Charlie Crist would let Florida for the first time send state inmates to out-of-state prisons. Corrections officials say they oppose joining at least eight other states who outsource some of their prison beds. But the governor and a private prison company that supported the law say it could someday be an option the state wants.

When other states have sent inmates out of state it has almost exclusively been to private facilities, though Florida's law would also allow the department to contract with other states.

Florida has the nation's third largest state prison system and topped 100,000 inmates late last year.