State officials say arrests in Florida have been declining over the past 5 years
With an annual budget of $2.3 billion and over 23,000 positions, the state Department of Corrections is one of the biggest — and most important — agencies in the state of Florida. And as a department that relies so much on general revenues for its funding, that reduction in revenues has undoubtedly played some part in the problems that have grown inside the system. And as the Senate Criminal Justice Committee was hearing about issues of corruption within the Department of…