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Director of Florida's Private Prison Commisssion Resigns, Fined $10,000 for Ethics Violations
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2003, page 21
Agreeing to pay $10,000 for ethics violations, the director of Florida's agency overseeing private prison contracts resigned in April, 2002. The Florida Ethics Commission has accepted the settlement. C. Mark Hodges was in charge of Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC), a state agency empowered to award contracts to private prison ...
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Private Prisons,
Government Misconduct,
Disclosure of Records,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Florida.
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