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| Pink slips handed to 225 CCA employees on Okla. |
| By Daily Oklahoman |
| Published: 08/25/2003 |
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Prison counselor Melissa Miller experienced some sorry luck last week, culminating with a broken leg at a North Fork Correctional Facility company picnic. The gathering served as a farewell for Miller and 224 fellow employees who received pink slips June 13 from Corrections Corporation of America. Monday, the Nashville corporation will close its 5-year-old private prison. What could go wrong next for Miller, a single mother of three? To her credit, that's not even a question she is asking. Miller's optimism defies the heartache of last week, where tearful farewells to colleagues replaced daily prison chores. Fifty employees accepted transfers to other Corrections Corporation prisons in Mississippi, Colorado, New Mexico, Tennessee and Washington. Another 13 employees have been assigned to a 'transitional team' - a detail that likely will end in unemployment unless the prison is reopened soon, North Fork Warden Jody Bradley said. The transfer of the prison's 989 inmates to the Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga was another emotional bridge. Today, none of the inmates remain at North Fork, where barbed-wired security gates remain unlocked. The prison is closing over a dispute involving the city's five-year contract with AT&T. Prison administrators earlier said prisoner telephone rates under the contract were higher than rates allowed by the Wisconsin Corrections Department, which housed 989 of its inmates at the Sayre prison. |
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