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| 1/26/2015

"I'm sorry to be the only fool who has taken it on himself to check it out, but I don't like dog-and-pony shows."

-- Sen. Greg Evers, R-Crestview

The chairman of a key legislative committee and an entourage of Senate staffers dropped in for an evening of surprise inspections at two of North Florida's troubled prisons late Thursday.

The initial findings after touring Suwannee Correctional and Jefferson Correctional: dormitories that had been abandoned because of leaking roofs, facilities dependent on community donations for supplies and dangerously low staffing levels at the prisons.

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