DOC used faulty cost analysis, misstatements in plan to cut nonprofit prisoner drug treatment facilities
In making its case to end third-party nonprofit drug abuse treatment and counseling for soon-to-be-released prisoners, the Florida Department of Corrections relied on false cost analysis and misleading statements. Daniel Ducassi of POLITICO Florida reports on newly released documents showing plans to cut nearly 700 so-called “transition” beds for prisoners in community-based facilities leading up to their release. The move sparked an uproar from nonprofit transition centers with DOC contracts to offer those services. “These sweeping policy changes that haven’t been…
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