Sunday, January 15, 2012

Florida Senate pushes to privatize prisons in 18 counties | The Raw Story

Florida Senate pushes to privatize prisons in 18 counties | The Raw Story
The Florida Senate Rules Committee has proposed a bill that would require the state’s Department of Corrections to privatize all prisons and other correctional facilities in 18 counties, according to the News Service of Florida.

The state legislature passed nearly the same measure last year, but the law was ruled unconstitutional in court because it didn’t go through the committee process, violating the Florida Constitution.

The second largest private prison company in the world, GEO Group, has donated $822,000 to political campaigns in Florida, according to the nonpartisan National Institute on Money in Politics. The company also spent $25,000 for Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) inauguration party.

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When the record of this whole Reagan-era privatization racket is finally written, maybe a decade or two from now, I think the focus will not be on efficiency, but on corruption.

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