Florida Lawmakers Boost Budgets For Private Prisons

Florida Politics reports:

The facilities run by The GEO Group — Blackwater River Correctional, Moore Haven Correctional and South Bay Correctional — will receive $1.6 million the Legislature for the sole purpose of raising correctional officer salaries “commensurate with salary increases for state correctional officers.”

The chambers also both directed individual supplements for contract extensions at three prisons, two of those run by The Geo Group. The big winner was Moore Haven, with $6.8 million directed to the Glades County institution. South Bay, in Palm Beach County, receives about $3.1 million.

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Sprinkle list: Private prisons run by @GEOGroup and @CoreCivic lock down millions for salaries, contract extensions

Reporting by @JacobOgleshttps://t.co/Wg5jXNN9rD#FlaPol

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