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Resource ID: #26137
Subject: Criminal Justice System
Source: Palm Beach Post
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Date: 2013-11-24

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The Palm Beach Post uncovered a little-understood aspect of Florida's criminal justice system running roughshod over taxpayers and inmates alike. Against a backdrop of state-approved secrecy, documents detailing security lapses and basic prison operations were routinely hidden from public view. A jury-rigged formula justifying lucrative private prison deals favored prison companies and was known to only a handful of state bureaucrats. A 13-year history of human rights abuses spanning 21 states was linked to a pattern of cost-cutting. And the 1990s-era laws bloating Florida prisons and creating the need for more private lockups were created by a politically savvy nonprofit backed by prison companies.

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