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Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2007, page 20
Florida's Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Failure to Protect (General),
Sex Offender Treatment,
Civil Commitment.
Location:
Florida.
by David M. Reutter
Despite recent scandals and a new private contractor, the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) is still a facility with little direction other than as a confinement center to warehouse sex offenders who have completed their sentences. ...
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