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| FL Housing Homeless And Released Criminals Together |
| By tbo.com |
| Published: 11/23/2010 |
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CLEARWATER - Their living quarters will be separate. But starting in January, homeless people are going to be housed in the same building as ex-convicts who have just been released from prison, according to Pinellas County and St. Petersburg officials. "They are the same population in many respects," said Bob Gualtieri, chief deputy at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. It's all part of a new program slated to begin in January in which newly released convicts with nowhere to go and homeless people arrested for relatively minor crimes will be housed in what is now an empty building. The building, an old bus depot not far from the Pinellas County Jail, at 14400 49th St. N., Clearwater, can hold up to 500 beds. Most of the costs will be borne by the sheriff's office and St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg Police Department has agreed to assign a detective to the new facility, and there is some grant money from the U.S. Department of Justice, Gualtieri said. Read More. |
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