FBI Investigates Blatant Corruption in Florida
FBI Investigates Blatant Corruption in Florida As I’ve reported on before, the GEO Group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying the Florida legislature over the past few legislative sessions,...
View ArticleFederal Grand Jury Investigation of the GEO Group
Federal Grand Jury Investigation of GEO Group All the commotion earlier this year over the failed attempt to privatize 29 correctional facilities in the state of Florida sort of overshadowed the seedy...
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Florida’s Politicians (But Not Its Residents) Love Private Prisons
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (photo: studio08denver/flickr) Florida’s Politicians (But Not Its Residents) Love Private Prisons Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz represents Southwest Ranches, Florida,...
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Florida’s Private Prisons CorruptionFest 2012
(photo: jeffreyputman, flickr) Florida’s Private Prisons CorruptionFest 2012! I’ll spare everyone a summary of what’s been happening in the Florida legislature over the past two sessions (see here,...
View ArticlePrison Privatization Fails in Florida, Again
Privatization Fails in Florida, Again For the second year in a row, legislation that would have resulted in a massive overhaul of Florida’s prison system (CorruptionFest 2012) has been defeated. The...
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Florida’s Love Affair With Private Prisons
First published on WhyIHateCCA Historic jail in Florida. Photo by Marsanne Petty. Many lawmakers in Florida, home of the GEO Group, are enamored with the idea of prison privatization. Legislators,...
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