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| Time for more oversight of Florida’s $2.3 billion prison system? |
| By palmbeachpost.com |
| Published: 11/19/2014 |
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As the Post’s Pat Beall reported on Monday (Nov. 17), a policy research group at Florida State University is calling on the state to fix the state’s fractured Department of Corrections. The same push for quality, accountability, professionalism and best practices that has been applied to schools, hospitals and other institutions is long overdue in the state’s prisons, argues the FSU Project on Accountable Justice. Former state Republican Party chairman Alison DeFoor chairs the project. “The problem is not a lack of good people. It’s the structure,” DeFoor said. “The design of this system dates back to a time when Florida was the smallest, poorest state in the country…This is the last area of government that has had no accountability.” Read More. |
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