Florida Senator Pushes For Abusive Youth Prison Company To Face Hearing

[Tx4obama]

Florida Senator Pushes For Abusive Youth Prison Company To Face Hearing

A top lawmaker in Florida is calling for a legislative hearing on abuses at the state's juvenile prisons run by the troubled for-profit contractor Youth Services International.

Darren Soto, one of the leading Democrats in the Florida Senate, sent letters Tuesday to fellow lawmakers and the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, which oversees the more than $100 million in state contracts held by YSI. The company was the subject of a two-part Huffington Post investigation that documented more than two decades of abuse at the firm's juvenile and adult facilities across the country.

Soto cited HuffPost's investigation in a request for extensive documentation on the company's contracts and incidents of abuse and violence in its Florida facilities.

"It has come to my attention that there have been multiple complaints of alleged mistreatment, failure to provide services and other abuses by Youth Services International," Soto wrote in the letter to state juvenile justice officials. "It becomes incumbent on us to continually review reports and patterns of abuse to root out bad actors and assure our children are getting the best chance for success."

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/10/youth-services-international-hearing_n_4420674.html

[Matariki]

1. How about NO MORE prison 'companies'!!

Doesn't anyone see what an absolutely bad idea it is for a society to allow for-profit prisons? They have a motivation to keep their for-profit prisons full. Whereas a healthy society would hope for a dwindling prison population.

[Old and In the Way]

2. NO BRAINER.

Every Democrat ought to be on this guy's side. For-profit incarceration is ridiculous.

[think]

3. Bingo /nt