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Jen Nugent, drawing from Charlotte County Jail series (2012)
The series of drawings were made by the artist while visiting her father at the Charlotte County Jail. She mentions that he was recently released and just visited her studio.
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Fly your Colors - hand sewn patches on canvas.
This past friday was a BIG day for me. I received the very prestigious, first annual, “Best Person I Know This Year Award” from my dear friend Shane Murphy! He gave me a beautiful metal sculpture and of course all the fame and glory that goes with it!
He only likes to lay on works in progress.
Amalia Pica’s piece Now, Speak! as it was being installed over the weekend. Part of our exhibition Common Ground, which opens to the public tomorrow at City Hall Park!
studio view
Daytime view of my sculpture at Ringling Underground at the Ringling Museum of Art. At night, it is lit from the inside.
Incarceration is expensive. (Florida)
In Fiscal Year 2009-10, it cost $19,469 a year or $53.34 a day to feed, clothe, house, educate and provide medical services for an inmate at any state facility, and $15,498 to do so at a prison for adult males, which are the majority of individuals incarcerated in the Florida state prison system. For more inmate cost per day information, go towww.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/0910/budget.html.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/faq.html
The total average number of incarcerate persons in Florida is about 93,000. 52,000 are adult males.
Florida has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of persons in prison over the last two decades.
Since 1988, the total number of persons in prison in Florida has nearly tripled, growing from 33,681 to
98,192; a 192% increase (see Figure 1). This exceeds the national rate of growth of 133% during the
same period. The rise in incarceration in Florida has been particularly significant in recent years.
Between 2000 and 2007, Florida had the fourth highest rate of growth in the country, increasing at an
annual rate of 4.7%, considerably higher than the average among the states of 1.7%.
As the number of people in prison in Florida has grown, a substantial proportion of that growth has consisted of nonviolent drug and property offenders, who now comprise 50% of the population. These include 20% of the total prison population whose primary offense was a drug crime. The expenditure associated with just drug and nonviolent property law violators cost over $979 million in FY 2007.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_FLTrends.pdf
Florida’s recidivism rate is about 33%, which means one of every three inmates released from a Florida state prison returns to prison in Florida within three years.
The numbers above reflect what the state pays for incarceration. They do not reflect the exorbitant bills the inmates receive before even being released from jail. An inmate that was held for just over four months can expect to owe about $4,000, with late fees added even before their release. A license can’t be reinstated until this is paid.
