Doug Anderson -- he's the County Administrator down in Florida's St. Lucie County -- says $8 million is expected to be available in the 2003-04 fiscal year to build a new housing pod at the Rock Road jail, according to today's Tribune. And it sounds like a good deal all around. The Trib reports that "an extra pod could pay for itself if the county made enough money housing federal prisoners," and that "The county could reportedly make an annual profit of more than $1.8 million if it installed 100 extra beds to rent to the federal government."

....Not to mention being able to grow all those new pod people....