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| Committee introduces bills to privatize prisons |
| By news-press.com - News Service of Florida |
| Published: 01/19/2012 |
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Florida -- The Department of Corrections would have to again open bids to privatize prisons in 18 Florida counties under a bill introduced Wednesday by the Senate Rules Committee over the objections of several corrections employees who say the system works better as part of state government. The committee also voted to introduce an accompanying bill that seeks to change the process for privatizing state agency work when lawmakers are the ones pushing for it rather than the executive branch – doing away with some of the justification requirements that backers say they won't need if they're the ones driving it anyway. State lawmakers last year approved roughly the same prison privatization attempt, requiring the DOC to bid out contracts to run prisons in much of the southern half of the state. But they did it in the proviso language of the budget, which led a circuit court judge to throw out the privatization plan, saying it had to be done in substantive legislation, not the fine print of the spending plan. The measures introduced by the Rules Committee on Wednesday attempt to deal with what the judge found to be the flaw – the process by which the plan was put into place. Read More. |
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