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Editorial published in Ocala newspaper’s Sunday edition

   February 25, 2013

My Florida Voices column – “Florida’s prison privatization is no paradise” – was published yesterday in Ocala Star Banner in its opinion section.

In his fiscal year 2014 budget, Gov. Rick Scott proposes to eliminate 2,355 jobs by privatizing health services for state prisoners. Privatization of prisons is a national fad among Republican governors and legislatures. States unload thousands of employees and their pensions, and the private companies squeeze the inmates and their staff to make a profit.

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