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Correction (1/29/00): Fourteen-year-old babysitter Sarah Sciandra was sentenced in Naples to 18 months to three years in a juvenile detention facility for the death of a 3-year-old girl. A Jan. 26 Associated Press story reported a different sentence.
Two representatives of Wackenhut Corrections Corp. phoned state Sen. Kendrick Meek during his sit-in in Gov. Jeb Bush's office suite last week and pressured the legislator - a Wackenhut employee - to end his protest of the governor's race policies, Meek said Tuesday. Wackenhut Corrections is part of the worldwide security giant that has multimillion-dollar contracts with the state of Florida. After the sit-in ended, Meek, D-Miami, found out the Bush administration is considering shutting down Wackenhut's privately run prison in Glades County to save money, and that the Palm Beach Gardens-based firm is pitching a $25-million plan for a new center for sex offenders in Arcadia. Meek, who earned $68,500 last year at Wackenhut, said the calls shocked him because he does not work for the firm's prison operation. His finds security contracts for a separate Wackenhut...