| -Private prisons: States offered cash for facilities | | Mon, Mar 12, 2012 | Pinal County | | ATLANTA — The nation’s largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need Read More Tags: Arizona, Pinal County, Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America | - Share It!
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| -Corrections Evaluates Both Private and Public Prisons | | Sat, Jan 7, 2012 | Pinal County | | By and large, Arizona’s privately run prisons are offering comparable services at comparable costs to prisons run by the state, according to a Department of Corrections (DOC) report issued last week.In the first review of its kind, the DOC found that four of the state’s six private prisons evaluated offer Read More Tags: Arizona, Florence, Public Prisons, Private Prisons | - Share It!
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| -Arizona prison businesses are big political contributors | | Sun, Sep 4, 2011 | Immigration | | Corrections Corp. of America, the country's largest private-prison operator, says it thrives by offering better service at a lower cost than state-run prisons. It's an argument echoed by the three smaller rivals bidding on a 5,000-bed private-prison contract with the state of Arizona. Tags: Arizona, Corrections Corp. of America, Private prisons, Jan Brewer | - Share It!
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| -Weighing in on the private prison industry; is it the wave of the future? | | Sun, Aug 28, 2011 | Pinal County | | Without a dog in the fight, it would be wrong for me to take a position on whether it would be good to build a private prison in Coolidge’s city limits. But it wouldn’t be wrong for me to commend the 225 citizens who attended the meeting and illustrated democracy Read More Tags: Coolidge, Arizona, Private Prisons, Emily Verdugo | - Share It!
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| Arizona privatization panel eyes parks, prisons | | Wed, Dec 1, 2010 | Economy | | Arizona RepublicBy Paul DavenportAssociated PressMembers of a state commission said Tuesday they expect to recommend that Arizona consider privatizing at least some state parks and increasing the state's use of privately operated prisons.The recommendations likely won't amount to specific plans but instead would seek to prod the state to consider Read More Tags: Privatization, Arizona, Arizona State Parks, Private Prisons | - Share It!
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| Arizona inmate escape puts spotlight on state private prisons | | Sun, Aug 22, 2010 | Election 2010 | | Arizona RepublicBy Casey Newton, Ginger Rough and JJ Hensley Arizona puts more of its inmates into privately run prisons every year, even though the prisons may not be as secure as state-run facilities and may not save taxpayers money.Lawmakers began using private prisons to ease overcrowding and have supported their use Read More Tags: Arizona, Private prisons, Terry Goddard, Jan Brewer | - Share It!
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| Arizona. AG: Too Many Killers in Private Prisons | | Wed, Aug 11, 2010 | Election 2010 | | KPHO.com PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is accusing Gov. Jan Brewer of sending too many convicted murderers to medium-security private prisons.Goddard contends those facilities are less secure than prisons run directly by the Department of Corrections. Tags: Terry Goddard, Arizona, Private prisons, Jan Brewer | - Share It!
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| U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants | | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 | Immigration | | New York TimesBy Nina BursteinThe Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”Details are sketchy, Read More Tags: Barack Obama, Immigration reform, local jails, private prisons, deportation, Detainees, Corrections Corporation of America | - Share It!
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