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Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts
by David M. Reutter
Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) consistently failed to safeguard the State's interests in its role as steward of privately operated correctional facilities," causing Florida's taxpayers to pay $12.7 million in questionable and excessive of cost. That conclusion was arrived at in a scathing report of the ...
Florida's Correctional Privatization Commission (CPC) consistently failed to safeguard the State's interests in its role as steward of privately operated correctional facilities," causing Florida's taxpayers to pay $12.7 million in questionable and excessive of cost. That conclusion was arrived at in a scathing report of the ...
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- Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails
- Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts, by David Reutter
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