By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- The Florida Nurses Association today filed suit to stop privatization of health care services in the Florida prison system - using the same legal tactic that has already worked for a union representing correctional officers that blocked a state budgeting move to wipe out their jobs.
Facing deep budget cuts every year, privatization has become the rallying cry of Florida's legislative leaders. Private companies have long been needed to efficiently complete government projects, like road construction. But unfortunately today, some lawmakers want to privatize state prisons for the sake of privatization — ignoring real numbers, hardworking correctional officers and public safety.
By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- Despite fearful warnings by prison guards who said cost-conscious legislators are risking public safety on false promises of financial savings — and destroying careers of thousands of state employees — a Senate committee advanced a pair of bills Monday to make prison privatization easier.
TALLAHASSEE – On one side of the Florida Capitol rotunda Friday, House lawmakers were busily passing redistricting maps. They had already crafted a $69-billion budget teed up for final passage next week and hours earlier killed the most heavily lobbied bill of the session – a destination casino proposal that had divided industry groups and major Florida employers.
By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- The issue of privatizing jobs in the state prison takes center stage at the Capitol today, as the Florida Legislature begins its third week in session.
PANAMA CITY - Bay County kicked the private sector out of the local corrections business about three years ago, but now Florida lawmakers are considering expanding its role in the state corrections business.Prison consolidation and privatization has become a contentious issue for the Legislature...
MIAMI -- Of all the thousands of people in Florida's prisons, have you ever stopped to think some may really be innocent? Locked up for something they didn't do? One man who spent more than two decades behind bars is speaking out, trying to shed...
Yesterday, Florida senators delayed their vote to sell a part of its state correctional system to the highest bidder. Sixteen thousand inmates would have become 'product' for the prison profiteers in this corporate take-over.
By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital News -- Just before the sharply divided Senate began floor debate on privatization of state prisons today, organized labor mounted a counter-offensive led by two senators -- a Republican and a Democrat -- who warned that public safety is being auctioned off to two huge corporate prison operators who pour campaign cash into campaign accounts of legislators and ...
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