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| Prison-privatization order rushed through session |
| By tallahassee.com |
| Published: 09/29/2011 |
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An attorney for the union representing state prison employees told a judge today that powerful legislators rushed a massive prison-privatization order through the 2011 session without public hearings or any analysis of its cost or impact on Florida government. But an assistant attorney general argued that state lawmakers have plenty of legal authority to direct how tax money is spent, and that the privatization plan was handled legally. "Passage of this legislation is a textbook example of what the constitution is designed to prevent," said Kelly Overstreet Johnson, a lawyer for the Florida Police Benevolent Association. She said privatizing 29 prisons in 18 South Florida counties "is a huge public-policy change" that should have been handled in a stand-alone statute, rather than stuck into the state budget in the closing days of the session. Read More. |
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