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Mitch Perry Report for 12.1.15 — Corizon Health Care terminates contract with Florida prisons. That’s not a bad thing

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If you don’t know of anyone who is caught up in the Florida corrections system, stories about the care of prisoners may not matter much to you at all. But they have been disturbing, particularly regarding the state of health care for those who incarcerated. Rick Scott ran for office in 2010 promising to privatize health care in the corrections system in Florida, and that finally happened in October of 2013, when Corizon Health Care took over (along with Wexford…

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Sex offenders under strict rules for Halloween

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Florida sex offenders under felony supervision have been given explicit instruction on what they cannot do this Halloween, in an effort to ensure they aren’t coming into contact with minors. Sex offenders are not allowed to give out candy or answer their door to trick-or-treaters. They’ve been instructed to keep porch lights off and blinds closed. Also, they cannot decorate the outside of their homes, dress in costumes or masks or attend Halloween parties where children may be present. If…

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Governor reforms prisons with executive order

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Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order Friday cracking down on the violent culture within Florida’s prison system. The order includes provisions addressing safety, transparency and holding guards, wardens and Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones accountable. Newspaper investigations have detailed a series of unexplained inmates deaths, allegations of retaliation against whistle blowers and reports of guards targeting African-American inmates. Scott directed Jones to implement a series of policies including: Requiring each employee who applies physical force upon an inmate…

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Gov. Scott reappoints 14 agency heads for another year despite Senate snub

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Gov. Rick Scott on Monday reappointed 14 men and women as directors of state agencies despite the Florida Senate refusing to confirm them during the regular session. The agencies run the gamut from Department of Economic Opportunity to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to the State Technology Agency. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Richard L. Swearingen and Department of Environmental Protection Jonathon Paul Steverson are not included in Scott’s press release. Both of those appointments require both Cabinet…

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DOC chief not aware of further Klan activity by prison guards

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Florida prisons chief Julie Jones says she knows of no further Ku Klux Klan activity by Florida prison officials besides two guards and a former guard arrested last week last week for plotting to kill a black inmate. But Jones told the Senate Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday that detecting extremists can be difficult because corrections officials can’t ask about job applicants’ political affiliations. She said the two guards working at the department’s Lake Butler facility when they were arrested hadn’t…

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The day that was at the Florida Capitol — April 2

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To understand this day at the state capitol one needs to take a long view of a 60-day Legislative Session. Think of a production of a play – the Florida Legislature spent the first half of a session putting all the pieces in place for one heck of a show. The climax will come either in a couple of weeks with the House and Senate resolving the differences in their proposed state budgets and end the 60-day session on time…

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Former Rick Scott general counsel Pete Antonacci lines up controversial lobbying client

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As reported earlier this week in Florida Politics, Pete Antonacci –– former general counsel for Gov. Rick Scott – is back in the influence business at his former firm GrayRobinson. Last week, Antonacci’s roster of clients were relatively anodyne, but not so as of today with the registration of his fourth client. Antonacci has signed up private prison giant Corizon, a firm that does a great deal of sensitive business with the state. New Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones is looking to overhaul exactly the kinds of facilities run by Corizon amid reports…

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