Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article211652004.html#storylink=cpy

Three weeks ago, 100 men lived in the dorms at Turning Point Bridge Community Release Center in Pompano Beach. During the day they held jobs serving food at local restaurants or building shipping pallets at a local plant. In the evenings, they worked on themselves, taking classes and preparing for better futures.

Then, from one day to the next, the dorms emptied. In the first two weeks of May, all 100 men went back to prison.

But not for committing a crime.

The heartbreaking moment when inmates boarded yellow buses at Turning Point Bridge to be shuttled from work-release back to state prisons represents the first blow of devastating budget cuts by the Florida Department of Corrections. The sweeping cuts targeted a variety of programs for inmates, including mental health treatment, transitional housing services, substance abuse services and re-entry centers.

In early May, Gov. Rick Scott signed a budget that left Florida prisons with a $28 million projected deficit for constitutionally mandated healthcare. In what she called a “last, but necessary resort,” FDC Secretary Julie Jones made major cuts to mostly transitional programs to cover the gap.

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