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| Privately Owned FL Prison to be Opened |
| By sunshinestatenews.com |
| Published: 04/01/2010 |
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Bowing to resistance from the Department of Corrections, Senate Republicans scaled back their prison privatization plans Wednesday. But the DOC is still directed to open the new 2,224-bed Blackwater River Correctional Facility as a privately operated facility by the GEO Group. GEO, which built the $110 million Panhandle prison per state contract, can operate the facility for $5.7 million less per year than the state, according to the Department of Management Services. Those savings are based on GEO's daily contract cost of $41 per inmate vs. $48 projected by the DOC. While Blackwater would move forward as a privately run facility, a series of amendments watered down savings that Ways and Means Committee Chairman J.D. Alexander had hoped to achieve. Instead of directing the DOC to privatize a yet-to-be-designated 1,350-bed facility and close others, the department was permitted to retain its operations with state personnel. The net effect is that the DOC must find savings in its budget to compensate for the $22 million the state will expend on the Blackwater contract in the coming year. Prison guards represented by the Police Benevolent Association vehemently opposed any privatization efforts that would diminish their ranks. Complicating Alexander's plan politically, the House of Representatives does not have a comparable privatization initiative in its budget. Read More. |
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