The company Rick Scott keeps:
The GEO Group also operates the Adelanto Detention Center that, with 1,300 beds for men, is the largest immigrant detention center in southern California. In 2012, a detainee there died from pneumonia. The US Department of Homeland Security's Office of Detention Oversight concluded that the man's death was preventable. Investigators determined that the medical staff had "provided an unacceptable level of care" and commit "several egregious errors" that led to the man's death. Immigration reform advocates have reported various forms of abuse at the Adelanto facility: maggots in the food, inadequate medical treatment, mistreatment by the GEO staff, and the overuse of solitary confinement. These allegations landed the center on the nonprofit Detention Watch Network's list of the worst detention facilities in the country.
The GEO Group is now expanding the Adelanto facility to add another 650 beds, which includes a women's wing. The GEO Group expects the expansion to result in an additional $21 million a year in revenue. The GEO Group has also invested heavily in lobbying Congress, spending more than $3 million over the past decade to keep the money flowing to its detention centers.
On Monday evening the governor will be attending a $3,000-$10,000 per person fundraiser at the home of GEO Group founder George Zoley; people who have gotten rich off the government teat in extremely dodgy circumstances gotta stick together, it seems. (A previous Scott fundraiser was to be held at the home of a rich man who had spent time in prison for a quarter million dollars worth of tax chicanery, so if you're sensing a theme here, you wouldn't be the only one.)
Here's a thought. Maybe imprisoning people shouldn't be a for-profit enterprise ever.