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Lawmakers have a plan to save jobs at seven state prisons scheduled to close in July. Their plan: ask the feds or states with large inmate populations if they want rent space in the Florida prisons. The prisons are closing because Florida’s inmate population is down by 12-thousand inmates. Senate President Mike Haridopolos says he’s open to suggestions.

“If we can open up some of those prisons to other states or the federal government to get some of the resource from other people, all the better, so I’m open to those suggestions,” said Haridopolos.

The Department of Corrections is closing the prisons because the state’s inmate population has fallen by 12-thousand inmates.