995008
Florida Senate - 2009
SB7072
The Committee on Ways and Means (Wilson) recommended the following
amendment:
Section:
On Page: 000
Spec App:
| EXPLANATION:
This amendment requires the Department of Management
Services to implement changes in future private
prison contracts. The amendment requires changes
related to contract monitoring and oversight, and
contract requirements based on the Legislature's
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government
Accountability (OPPAGA) Report Number 08-71.
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NET IMPACT ON: Total Funds General Revenue Trust Funds
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Non-Recurring - 0 0 0
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In Section On Page 000
On page 102, After PROGRAM: SECURITY AND INSTITUTIONAL OPERATIONS:
Insert the following new paragraph of proviso:
From the funds provided in Specific Appropriations 617, 631 and 644, to
improve vendor oversight and contract management, the Department of
Management Services shall ensure that private prisons resolve any
violations cited by the Department of Corrections security, infirmary,
and contraband operations audits. The Department of Management Services
must, through attrition of staff, hire managers and contract monitors
with adult corrections expertise. The Department of Management Services
must provide relevant training as recommended by the Department of
Corrections to all current and future staff responsible for overseeing
the private prisons, including training in prison safety and security
procedures, inmate manipulation resistance, defensive tactics, and
contraband detection and control. The Department of Management Services
must ensure that all future private prison contracts must have explicit
conditions that provide for the flexibility to adjust the percentages of
special needs inmates to allow for changes in the overall state
populations of those inmates. Such percentages must be based on
Department of Corrections' special needs inmate population forecasts, so
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that medical and mental healthcare costs are appropriately shared by
both private and state prisons. All future private prison contracts
must require each private prison vendor to report the same performance
measures for inmate programs in private prisons as reported by the
Department of Corrections for its comparable public institutions. As
part of the private prisons contracting negotiations process, the
Department of Corrections must consult with the Department of Management
Services and each private prison vendor to establish high, reasonable,
and achievable performance standards. All future private prison
contracts must require each private prison vendor to develop inmate
visitation policies and telephone rates for the private prisons that are
consistent with those policies followed by the state's public prisons
and encourage inmate family contact, as directed by Florida statutes.
Finally, the Department of Management Services must require all future
private prison contracts to adhere to Department of Management Services'
established criteria for awarding Privately Operated Institutions Inmate
Welfare Trust Fund monies so that Department of Management Services'
staff can verify that such funds are being used appropriately.
| Line item amendments are accepted as part of the amendatory process. However, due to the necessity of using computerized systems this may entail a different placement within a budget entity or the renumbering of the specific appropriation items. Items printed in italics are computer codes and are not a part of the official text of this amendment. |
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