Florida Legislature Makes Stealth Move to Privatize Prisons: "The Miami Herald is reporting that the Florida Senate quietly slipped language into its newly proposed budget Monday that seeks to give corporations the chance to run correctional facilities and probation services in 18 counties, in what could signal a massive private takeover of public prisons.
The move -- which could shift nearly $600 million to private firms -- surprised prison guards, their unions and even the head of the state Senate's Criminal Justice Appropriations Committee, Mike Fasano, who said that his committee was opposed to the idea of privatizing prisons when it was proposed by Gov. Rick Scott's aides. "We made it clear that we weren't interested. We moved on without doing it," said Fasano. "And now it appears in the budget. I'm not pleased. It is a huge, substantive issue. It's a major policy change, and it should have at least been discussed publicly.”"
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