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FL: Private Prison Problems Not Quickly Fixed

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report: Florida prison problems not quickly fixed By JESSICA GRESKO , 03.12.09, 04:11 PM EDT The agency that oversees Florida's six privately run prisons needs to ensure that problems found during audits - such as broken alarms and unsanitary infirmaries - are quickly fixed, lawmakers were told Thursday as part of a report reviewing the agency. Audits of private prisons by the Florida Department of Corrections had previously found broken escape sensors and buildings that had not been checked for any attempts by inmates to tunnel out. Audits also found delays in medical care and problems involving contraband. "Some of these problems were repeated year after year at the same prisons," said analyst Vic Williams, who summarized the report for lawmakers in testimony before the Senate Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).