August 23, 2011
Prison expert rips florida’s privatization plans
TALLAHASSEE -- A University of North Florida criminology expert who specializes in prison privatization issues is blasting the state's privatization plans for facilities in an 18-county area of South Florida.
Michael Hallett, chair of UNF's criminology program and author of Private Prisons in America, completed an unsolicited assessment of the state's call for vendors, which he then sent to Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, chair of the Senate Criminal Justice Appropriations subcommittee and an opponent of privatization.
"There are so many serious problems with this RFP that it is not easy to digest in one document," he wrote in the memo he sent to Fasano...
LINK - Sun-Sentinel.com
