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TALLAHASSEE -- Private companies are good at financing and building prisons, but the state is better at running them, state Corrections Secretary James McDonough said.
Florida has five privately owned and operated prisons and a sixth under construction, but McDonough said Tuesday that he was unsure if there will be more.
"In some areas, we've saved the state a lot of money by outsourcing," McDonough said during a radio call-in show on WFLA-FM.
"The inmates in that system are still mine. I still have the obligation to make sure that they're properly taken care of, and even more important, that they're secured," he said.
An audit in 2005 by the Department of Management Services said the state overpaid for private prison operations by nearly $13 million.
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