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| Correctional Peace Officers Recovering After Inmate Attack |
| By orlandosentinel.com |
| Published: 02/04/2016 |
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A House panel Wednesday approved a proposal that would make a major change in programs that provide job training to prison inmates. The bill (HB 1229) would take the programs away from the non-profit Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises, Inc., and put them under the Department of Corrections. The non-profit, commonly known as PRIDE, was created in the 1980s to manage the programs, which sell goods and services produced by inmates. The bill was filed by House Judiciary Chairman Charles McBurney, R-Jacksonville, who told the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee that he has received complaints from other lawmakers about PRIDE, which a House staff analysis said "has drawn mixed reviews for generating significant profits while failing to increase the number of inmates participating" in work programs. Read More. |
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