Ex-prison privatization chief sentenced
Source: By Bill Cotterell, Tallahassee Democrat (FL), April 21, 2006
With a prosecutor calling him a bigger crook than some inmates in the privatized prisons he used to oversee, Alan Duffee got nearly three years in federal prison Thursday and was ordered to repay more than $224,000 he admitted siphoning out of state funds. Duffee, who became a lobbyist after the Correctional Privatization Commission was abolished last year, apologized and offered U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle no excuses for repeatedly dipping into a prison maintenance and repair fund. Hinkle imposed the maximum prison term provided by federal sentencing guidelines - 33 months - but agreed to recommend that Duffee be sent to a Pensacola-area prison when he reports to custody on June 20.