Florida’s lax oversight enables systemic abuse at private youth prisons

Barry Krisberg quoted in The Huffington Post, October 23, 2013

“Some of the top criminologists were basically scaring the hell out of people, saying, ‘We’ve got this wave of new barbarians at the door,'” said Barry Krisberg…. “It’s true that youth crime rates were rising. But they were projecting that this was going to double, triple. It was outrageous.”