TALLAHASSEE -- Public employee unions are challenging a state budget provision calling for the privatization of health care in Florida's prisons. <\/p>\n
Circuit Judge Kevin Carroll held a hearing Tuesday in Tallahassee and said he hoped to rule next week. <\/p>\n
Carroll, though, acknowledged the case will be appealed regardless of his decision. <\/p>\n
It is similar to another prison privatization case set for oral argument June 27 in the 1st District Court of Appeal. <\/p>\n
The state is appealing another Tallahassee judge's ruling that struck down a budget provision requiring privatization of prison facilities in South Florida. <\/p>\n
Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford ruled the Republican-led Legislature violated the Florida Constitution by using the budget to make a substantive change in state law instead of passing a stand-alone bill. <\/p>\n
Such a bill subsequently was defeated. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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