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“Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2007
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2007, page 38
"Please Rip Us Off" Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Contractor Misconduct,
Staffing,
Mental Health,
Civil Commitment,
State Legislation.
Location:
Florida.
by David M. Reutter
Despite having ordered a criminal investigation into its private prison contractors, the Florida Legislature and Governor Charlie Crist have enacted legislation that specifies those same companies are the only ones that can bid on expanding current …
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