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| Prison issues are far from settled |
| By tallahassee.com - Bill Cotterell |
| Published: 02/27/2012 |
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Florida -- Legislators and officials of the Florida Department of Corrections have talked a lot about the policy decisions involved in running prisons. Those discussions will continue in the two weeks remaining of the 2012 legislative session, during House-Senate budget negotiations. One subject that's off the table is the plan for privatizing more than two-dozen prison facilities in an 18-county swath of South Florida. A fast-track bill to do by statute what Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford stopped lawmakers from doing in budget-proviso language ran off the tracks in a 21-19 Senate vote about 10 days ago. In finishing up their version of the budget last week, some senators made a point of getting it on the record that — whatever other compromises come out of the budget negotiations — saving about $16.4 million by contracting out for operation of those prisons won't be one of them. Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff of Fort Lauderdale, who took over the law-and-order budget committee when Sen. Mike Fasano of New Port Richey was sacked for fighting privatization too well, promised that we've seen the last of it for this session. But she added that she can't speak for Gov. Rick Scott, a privatization advocate who can have the DOC pursue contracting with companies promising to operate the prisons 7 percent cheaper than the state does it. Read More. |
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