Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Run by Geo Group is For-Profit
That’s correct, the Florida Civil Commitment Center located in Arcadia, Florida is run by Geo Group, Inc./Correct Care Solutions, a for-profit private corporation.
This article in Business Insider pointed out the conflict of interest of having a civil commitment center being run by a private, for profit company.
Unlike prisons, from which over 90% of those incarcerated are eventually released, mental health hospitals and civil commitment centers represent the potential for lifetime confinement, which spells long-term, guaranteed profits for private corporations.
There’s a clear incentive to keep people locked up if the company is making money from them being locked up. How this conflict of interest escapes the State is unbelievable.
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