Overcrowded Prisons.

• Author: McLeod, Robert L., II
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

With respect to the recent article ("The 2018 Florida Bar Criminal Justice Summit: A First Step in Improving Florida's Criminal Justice System," January/February) in The Florida Bar Journal regarding overcrowded prisons and the swollen Department of Corrections budget, the solution seems clear; jail fewer people. As a former chief prosecutor, I witnessed legions of people going to prison for purely nonviolent offenses.

This was, and is, senseless.

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