[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6667-6668]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                SUPPORTING COLEMAN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to 
commend the men and women serving in the Federal Correction Complex in

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Coleman, Florida, in my district. This Federal complex serves our 
Nation by housing prisoners in low-, medium- and high-security 
facilities. It has provided countless jobs in my district and helped 
our growing economy.
  The people who fill those jobs truly are a testament to the array of 
wonderful people in my district. Even with the struggles in funding and 
thinly stretched staff, the officers at Coleman are cheerful, positive, 
and professional people. Staffing a prison complex is no easy job, and 
many of the officers there literally have scars to prove it. Yet they 
know their job is to keep our families safe.
  I have had the opportunity to tour this facility several times and 
meet with the staff, and I am proud to serve alongside such honorable 
public servants. I want to take this opportunity to give them all my 
heartfelt thanks.

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