The report researchers reviewed 60 of the thousands of incident reports filed from July 2018 to February 2020 – reports that are required after incidents such as inmate altercations with staff or outside medical attention being required. It also detailed how the private prisons were insufficiently monitored, from their maintenance activities, to their health care services, to their facility staffing. and Management and Training Corporation - did not. The report also found that the bureau did not ensure that the three private prison providers had all the required insurance coverage, which those three providers - CoreCivic of Tennessee, LLC, GEO Group Inc. The bureau did not always issue written notices of noncompliance to the prisons, according to the report.Īmong the multiple cases of noncompliance identified, maintenance issues were not followed up on for 17 months at Gadsden Correctional Institute and key personnel were not provided proper radio equipment for three months.Īuditing records additionally indicated that the company overseeing GCI couldn’t demonstrate that key security personnel had received appropriate training for five months. Lawmakers in the report primarily focused on issues in the adult facilities. The three providers operate Bay Correctional Facility, Blackwater River Correctional Facility, Graceville Correctional Facility, Moore Have Correctional Facility, South Bay Correctional Facility, Gadsden Correctional Facility and Lake City Youthful Offender Facility.
The report, published June 2022, outlined seven areas where the bureau and the three contracted private prison providers it’s tasked with overseeing fell short. This came after the committee heard an auditing report presentation Thursday of the Bureau of Private Prison Monitoring, which is within the Department of Management Services. State prisons understaffed: National Guard heading to Florida prisons to help understaffed Department of Corrections of Corrections wants 12% budget hike, to increase prison employee pay again Officials of state prisons want more: Florida Dept. Pizzo requested copies of the private prison contracts – saying he bets there’s a lot of claw backs and teeth in the language. “With our help with the contracts, all these have to be resolved by November.” Jason Pizzo, D-Hollywood, the alternating chair of the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee, told a Department of Management Services official. TALLAHASSEE – After a report outlined a pattern of failed oversight and compliance within Florida’s private prison system, a bipartisan group of lawmakers threatened contracts and questioned whether the bureau responsible for preventing such problems should still serve in that function.
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