FL: New Florida prison boss details deeply ingrained problems

Bradenton.com: In an unprecedented moment of candor, Florida's newly installed prisons chief told a Senate committee private contractors have provided inadequate medical care to Florida's inmates while crumbling infrastructure and years of staffing cuts have fostered "culture" problems in the massive agency.

Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones had intended to present the Senate Criminal Justice Committee with a variety of reforms she is proposing to the system that has seen a 13 percent increase in inmate deaths in the past year, but the committee had other ideas.

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