Comments on: Legislative Committe Approves Prison Health Privatization Amendment

By: 428CJ

428CJ — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:37:22 +0000

Privatization of prisons is designed to put money back into the governors pocket .the only way that they can do it cheaper is to higher less qualified personel.They have private prisons in other states and they are a dissaster!

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:41:29 +0000

To all concerned, the system or America in general is gone down the tubes. The people of Florida let Rick Scott breeze into town and decided to elect him governor and now complain because they bought a bum steer. I say that they wanted to sow the wind, well let them reap the whirlwind.

I am not going to make myself sick and worry as the wind starts to blow on this house of cards, I am just going to continue to steadily prepare for the day it all hits the fan and I say the sooner the better. Then we can clean it up and set it right.

Henery Coe you are on the money, JSL you have my full support, I almost accepted a corrections position after I retired from the military, passed the exam, the physical test ect. I came to the realization at the last minute that I was not cut out to be a C/O, though I am an excellent shot and can swing a blackjack hard enough to put a bull in a coma, just not for me. Good luck in your career Sir.

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:03:56 +0000

Privatizing anything about prisons or any other aspect of government is fascism realized. It is taking a task that through government was being done at cost and adding to that the profit required by a private corporation and its share holders.

This is nothing more than a way to exploit the tax payers of Florida. The reason it is being put on the ballot is because it is a horrible idea and no politician can say otherwise or wants to put their name on it.
Like the Property Tax Cut that was put on the ballot in 06 to push the real estate bubble for a while longer before it popped, Florida House Republicans are counting on the misinformed and ill-informed Florida voters voting to pass this because they have no idea that it will mean more taxes for Floridians to pay.

The State Republicans are already creating a fake accounts receivables by hiring private bill collectors to collect bogus debts and they do more of the same with private bill collectors working for the state to collect for health care charges from private doctors and health care providers working for the state.

All the while, as these bogus Accounts Receivables grow, the state will use those to offset the ledger of the budget making it look balanced when it is nothing more than a type of derivatives market. Yes, I said it. The State of Florida is doing to its books what Wall Street did between 1998 and 2008.
The state government will grow and grow until it can’t hide the lie any more and it will ruin our state.

By: JSL

JSL — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:07:58 +0000

I do not have a family member in prison. I work at one. Therefore, I think that makes me a little bit more knowledgeable than you about what goes on. By the way, weights have been pretty much gone for about six years now. My point is this, If people are being incacerated to make a copoeration rich, do you think they care about recidivisim. NO they don’t. They want the prisons to stay full so they make more money. This is the first step towards just that.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:51:59 +0000

JSL every family has a member in prison as does mine. My cousin he wanted to run the I95 and to be an arm breaking tough guy, well he is in a place where he can workout all he wants, intimidate and hurt people all day long, until someone tougher comes along as is always the case.

Prisons are not supposed to be pleasant, they are bad places, the reward for bad behavior. I am sorry you have a family member that is incarcerated and I hope that they are not soft and timid. If you are worried about them I would suggest you cultivate a contact within the facility, for which to employ security for them. Start a bank allottment to someone’s commissary account or family, someone suited to the enviroment.

By: JSL

JSL — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:10:45 +0000

429SCJ : You are wrong. Prisons should be safe, secure and humane. If your family member were in prison would you want them to be treated inhumane. I don’t think you would. And don’t say ” My family member wouldn’t end up in there. ” because you never know. However all this Privatization is the first step to having your wishes of being inhumane come true.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:54:06 +0000

If you have a problem with privitization of prison healthcare, don’t go to prison or get your own HMO.

Prisons should be a bad inhumane place, people would not wish to return there if they found life there intolerable.