Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Foreign Inmates Face Release, Deportation
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
About 500 nonviolent foreign nationals will be released early from state prisons and deported under a plan aimed at freeing up crowded prisons. The first-of-a-kind agreement was announced by Gov. Lawton Chiles and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. If the prisoners return to the United States, they will return to finish their state prison terms. More than 4,100 foreign nationals are among Florida’s 54,000 prisoners.
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