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HE ALSO STATED THAT GOVERNOR ASKEW AND SECRETARY KELLER WERE VERY <br />INTERESTED IN THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AND THAT THEY WERE CON- <br />TINUING TO MAKE PLANS BASED ON POPULATION INCREASES. UNDER THE NEW <br />PLAN THEY DID NOT INTEND TO BUILD ANY INSTITUTION LARGER THAN FOR <br />300 INMATES. <br />MR. WAINWRIGHT WAS THEN ASKED WHY THEY DID NOT BUILD ON <br />STATE OWNED LAND IN SAINT LUCIE COUNTY. HE ANSWERED THAT THE LAND <br />WAS REQUESTED, BUT THE BOARD OF REGENTS REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO THEM. <br />HE FURTHER SAID THAT SECRETARY KELLER DECIDED THAT THEY NEEDED LAND <br />IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, AND AT THIS POINT MR. WAINWRIGHT COMMENTED <br />THAT HE HAD NOT SEEN ANY FENCES BETWEEN THE COUNTY LINES: <br />MR. WAINWRIGHT TOLD REPRESENTATIVE CLEM THAT THERE WOULD <br />BE 20,000 INMATES SOON AT OUR PRESENT RATE, AND 58% WOULD BE UNDER <br />25 YEARS OF AGE. HE STATED IT WOULD BE A CAMPUS TYPE BUILDING WITH <br />DECORATIVE FENCES AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE TO KEEP ESCAPES TO A <br />MINIMUM. HE ALSO STATED THAT THE COST APPRAISALS WERE DONE BY VERY <br />RESPECTABLE APPRAISORS AND THAT THE PRICE IS A MOOT QUESTION. HE <br />FURTHER STATED THAT THE INSTITUTION WOULD HAVE MANY EFFECTS ON THE <br />COMMUNITY. THEY WOULD PARTICIPATE IN JAYCEE GROUPS, MARCH OF DIMES <br />AND BLOOD BANKS. THEY WOULD ALSO ENCOURAGE THEIR STAFF TO BECOME <br />A PART OF THE COMMUNITY, JOIN IN THE VARIOUS CLUBS, CHURCHES, AND <br />SO FORTH. <br />AT THIS TIME CHAIRMAN LOY STATED THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO <br />HEAR FROM THE CITIZENS. <br />THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN THESE MINUTES REFLECT SOME OF <br />THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DIRECTED AT BOTH THE DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS <br />AND THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BY SOME OF THE PERSONS WHO CHOSE TO SPEAK. <br />LARRY GRAHAM ASKED MR. WAINWRIGHT HOW LARGE A TASK FORCE <br />HE WOULD BRING TO VERO BEACH WHEN AN INMATE BROKE OUT AND TERRORIZED <br />OUR COMMUNITY. <br />MR. WAINWRIGHT STATED THAT AT APALACHICOLA, FLORIDA, THEY <br />HAD ONLY ONE BREAK-OUT IN ELEVEN YEARS. <br />JACK STINSON STATED THAT THIS MATTER HAS BEEN BEFORE THE <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PREVIOUSLY AND HE THOUGHT THEY WERE ALREADY <br />AWARE OF THE THINKING OF THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. THIS <br />INSTITUTION IS WITHOUT MERIT AND HE RESENTED A TASK FORCE BEING SENT <br />IN AND ALL THIS TAX MONEY BEING WASTED. <br />