71.   The shrinking state surplus already has prompted lawmakers to rule out other high-priced items, such as building new prisons and passing major tax cuts.

72.   There are no official statistics on cohabitation, but enforcing the law would probably require a new prison construction program.

73.   Those fighting the new prison say that regardless of the reason, the figures prove that a new prison is counterintuitive.

74.   Those programs would ultimately cost much less than building new prisons, he said.

75.   Unfortunately, as new prisons have gone up, treatment programs within them have declined.

76.   We have spent millions to build new prisons, and enacted tougher sentencing guidelines.

77.   What is clear is that people want those convicted of violent crimes locked up and they are willing to pay to build new prisons and to fund their operation.

78.   While rushing to build new prisons at an unprecedented rate, Florida has dangerously ignored its old ones and the people who work in them.

79.   With the new prison in the background, Clarence Hudson, left, and Avery Bankston gather pecans for Thanksgiving.

80.   Would have authorized construction of a new maximum-security prison.