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| Senate committee confirms Florida prison secretary |
| By bradenton.com- Mary Ellen Klas |
| Published: 04/03/2015 |
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TALLAHASSEE -- A Senate committee on Thursday voted to confirm Julie Jones as secretary of the Department of Corrections after she defiantly denied allegations from a group of whistleblowers who alleged that her agency sanctioned the cover-up of inmate abuse and staff corruption. “I do not agree with the majority of the testimony,” Jones told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice during a hearing on her confirmation as secretary. The committee unanimously confirmed her appointment, making her the fifth secretary to serve the agency under Gov. Rick Scott in five years. Jones referred to the testimony of three inspectors at the Department of Corrections, and one former inspector who is now a county sheriff, who told a Senate committee in March that they were ordered to ignore evidence of crimes committed by corrupt officials because doing so would give the agency a “black eye.” Read More. |
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