By KATHLEEN HAUGHNEY
Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE — A state cost-cutting proposal that would shift about 5,600 inmates from state prisons to county jails would blow a $100-million hole in the budgets of counties already suffering from revenue losses in a down economy, according to the Florida Association of Counties.
And that has many county officials, who say they can’t afford – or, in some cases, physically house – more inmates in their jails, on high alert.
“We really need to find solutions,” said Cragin Mosteller, a spokeswoman for the Florida Association of Counties, the lobbying arm of county governments. “We’re taking it very seriously.”
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