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| Wisconsin Transfers Inmates Away from CCA-owned Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/17/2001 |
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The state of Wisconsin plans to move all its inmates from a privately operated prison in West Tennessee by next year, leaving vacancies that some fear will mean layoffs. Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America housed 1,515 Wisconsin prisoners last year at its prison 50 miles east of Memphis but now houses about 840. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections will slowly move the rest of the inmates to prisons in Wisconsin and Minnesota over the next six months. Concerned about possible layoffs if cells remain vacant, Hardeman County Executive Sam Nuckolls wrote to the Tennessee Department of Correction last month asking that it consider placing up to 1,024 medium-security prisoners at Whiteville. Hardeman County already contracts with Tennessee to house 2,016 state inmates at the separate Hardeman County Correctional Facility, owned by a county board but operated by CCA under contract. CCA spokesman Steve Owen said he was 'not personally aware of any discussions' about layoffs. CCA, the nation's largest private prison company, had layoffs at its private prison in Tutwiler, Miss., earlier this year when Wisconsin removed its inmates from there. |
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