Comments on: Florida Weekly Gov’t Roundup: Sinkholes And Private Prisons

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:36:10 +0000

REGARDING:
“- – - that was doing the things you’re speaking of, Plus allot more you didn’t know about..( He was forced to resign or be fired) You haven’t heard of anything like that since, have you ?”

Oh, I heard of a lot more, just don’t report rumor. (I’m a quiet kind of fellow.) Nonetheless, just because I might or might not have heard of more since then is not proof nothing wrong was done since then. Sometimes it just means the less careful were winnowed out and replaced by more carefully corrupt.

Humans are humans. Humans are tempted. Humans yield to temptation if they think they can get away with it.

As Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Mandell Creighton, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” He only had part of the equation, though. It isn’t only “great” men who are bad men, most people will do bad things if they think they can get away with them. (Consider what happens in a classroom if the teacher steps outside the room.) We need to convince ourselves and others we can’t get away with such things.

David regarding reality,
seeking solutions

By: chris

chris — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:13:32 +0000

I am glad I left working for the FDOC. I will never go back to the state and never work for GEO. I love working for the county.

By: JimD

JimD — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:11:35 +0000

Just more reasons why I will never live back in tha State of Florida…

By: sktmax

sktmax — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:21:35 +0000

I am against private prisons. I believe confining a human being (no matter how big of a piece of crap they are) is one of the most important responsibilities of state and federal government. With private prisons, the responsibility of making money to their shareholders comes before their civil responsibilities to inmates, and more important, public safety.

By: Scott Lassiter

Scott Lassiter — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:06:38 +0000

Mr. Green: You are correct. There is a former Sec. of the Dept. of Corrections doing federal time for corruption. But if he were working in the private prison sector , he would have only been fired, and that’s all. You have one heck of a memory, that was the first Warden Century ever had that was doing the things your speaking of, Plus allot more you didn’t know about..( He was forced to resign or be fired) You haven’t heard of anything like that since, have you ? I think not. By the way Blackwater is under Federal investigation now for what, POLITICAL CORRUPTION.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:40:25 +0000

You elect an idiot you get idiot issues!!

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:12:55 +0000

REGARDING:
“Public Prisons for citizens = Accountability
Private Prisons for profit = Corruption”

Actually, all organizations, both public and private, have the danger of corruption.

Private may be more likely for all I know, but remember a few years back a warden at Century Correctional Institution was building sheds at his home using CCI materials and inmate labor and taking favored inmates home with him — for popcorn and a movie, I think it was. Guards slip in contraband every now and then even in public prisons.

You just need lots of checks and balances (distrust) to reduce corruption temptation.

David for perfect justice

By: P

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:25:55 +0000

HUH U ALREADY DO. SANTA ROSA COUNTY JAIL MADE 1.2 MILLION DOLLARS FOR HOUSING FEDERAL INMATES.

By: Scott Lassiter

Scott Lassiter — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:38:25 +0000

As I have stated one time before,( and notice that I am not hiding my name cause I have more guts in my pinky finger that most of the politicians who sneaked this plan into exsistance). Plus I just don’t care :
Public Prisons for citizens = Accountability
Private Prisons for profit = Corruption
This is like comparing apples to oranges. When a Private run prison has an unruly or old and expensive Inmate to care for, guess who they send them to. They surely don’t take care of them, they send them to a state run Public prison to absorb the cost. Is this fair “Head to head competitiveness? Heck no.It is also a lie that Rick Scott did not support this. It was his idea.Why do you fine folks think that no one in Law Enforcement supported him. Private prisons have been in Florida for approx. 20+ years. They do not work with out cutting corners. And without paying off politicians. Oh yea,GEO Group( one of the company’s bidding for the south Florida contracts) was the largest contributor to Gov. Scott’s inagural ball. I don’t believe “Let’s get to work.” I believe ” I am alrerady a crook, let’s see how much more I can steal.” should have been his slogan. Politics as usual. God bless America. Maybe one of these days we can take her back.

By: pm

pm — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:03:36 +0000

This man appears to be morally bankrupt. Perhaps an exorcism would be good for him.He reminds me of Stephen King’s story “Thinner”