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Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 957
CORRECTIONAL PRIVATIZATION
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F.S. 957.08
957.08 Capacity requirements.—The department shall transfer and assign prisoners to each contractor-operated correctional facility opened pursuant to this chapter in an amount not less than 90 percent or more than 100 percent of the capacity of the facility pursuant to the contract. The prisoners transferred by the department shall represent a cross-section of the general inmate population, based on the grade of custody or the offense of conviction, at the most comparable facility operated by the department.
History.—s. 40, ch. 93-406; s. 16, ch. 2004-248; s. 15, ch. 2023-268; s. 46, ch. 2024-84.