PRISONERS
OF PROFIT
ment, helping to develop some
of the state’s first quality assurance standards. Damon Nunn,
who runs YSI’s Palm Beach juvenile facility, used to be the state
monitor at one of the company’s
programs in South Florida.
State probes of mistreatment
claims typically end with inconclusive evidence. Only about a
quarter of cases across the state
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system involving allegations of
abuse by staff are ever substantiated, according to a HuffPost
tabulation of investigations logged
by the inspector general’s office
at the Department of Juvenile
Justice. Many are simply ruled
“inconclusive” when staff say one
thing and youth say another, despite trends indicating that problems are systemic.
THE RISE OF JAMES SLATTERY’S PRIVATE PRISON EMPIRE
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