State wants stability regardless of quality of service

The Huffington post is doing a great series of articles on Youth "facilities" in Florida. My take on this is it doesn't work to privatize jobs no one wants to do and when you do you get so few applicants you are stuck with the very few who apply. Florida is stuck saying we need these kids housed and fed en mass (forget rehabilitated), but taxpayers wont let the State do it cause that looks like "more government" and only a few people want this job, because it requires all sorts of things regular business want nothing to do with. These private businesses who manage the bear minimums become too big to fail in their respective communities since no one else wants/is equipped to do the job.

All I can say is that I've been in an American court room where a judge commit a child to one of these private institutions based on the written advice of a doctor from another private institution, while not providing any competent legal council to argue the child's desire not to be incarcerated. Oh and then there was the judge in Pennsylvania caught doing this for $$.. and the prescription drug companies getting in on this jailing game too

So how do you fire someone managing the care for 40,000 kids ?

Jail doesnt help anyone except the jail companies and the people they spread the wealth too(doctors, lawyers, cops). Policing is a basic function of government and need to be brought back under the pubic umbrella were there is more transparency and better methods to promote change than all or nothing contract/no contract.