May 02, 2006
A whistleblower suit unsealed in Leon County, Florida, charges that Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group filed false bills at some of the state prisons they operate. The state of Florida declined to join the suit.
A 2005 state audit said that the now defunct Correctional Privatization Commission had allowed the two companies to overbill the state by nearly $13 million for questionable and excessive costs.
An Associated Press report ran in the May 1, 2006 issue of the Palm Beach Post.