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iwishiwas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 11:06 AM
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Trouble at FL private prison

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http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/07/trouble-at-fl-private-prison.html

Monday, July 25, 2011
Trouble at FL private prison

Here's a disturbing story from South Florida:

State corrections investigators couldn't get into a prison one night when they tried to conduct a drug sweep. Worse, there was no independent oversight of the private company that runs the prison. So it's unclear what actually happened that night.

The Palm Beach Post describes the incident at South Bay Correctional Institution.

No guard was stationed at the front gate, according to state Department of Corrections reports obtained by The Palm Beach Post. No one answered an alert button that the inspection team pressed twice. And no one responded after the team shined a flashlight at a security camera to try to get the attention of guards who were supposed to be in the privately run prison's control room.

After 20 minutes of waiting and a phone call to their supervisor, the drug interdiction team left without trying to call anyone in the prison, operated by Boca Raton-based GEO Group Inc.

And: ................
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Froward69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 11:18 AM
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1.  Just like the gop... Lights are on but nobody home...
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 01:08 PM
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2. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, iwishiwas.
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