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| Arizona picks prisons in Oklahoma, Texas for temporary placements |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/01/2004 |
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Arizona plans to ship more than 2,000 prisoners to two privately operated prisons in Oklahoma and Texas to relieve crowding here, the Corrections Department said Feb. 20. Corrections Director Dora Schriro proposed awarding contracts to send 1,200 prisoners to Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Okla., and 864 prisoners to the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas. Arizona plans to use the two out-of-state prisons for about a year to provide the state with breathing room until facilities in Arizona are expanded. The 2,160-bed Diamondback prison is owned and operated by Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corp. of America. The 3,000-bed Reeves County facility is owned by Reeves County and operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corp., based in Boca Raton, Fla. Schriro told lawmakers earlier this week that the first 200 inmates would be transferred in mid-March and that the remainder would follow in the next several months. Arizona has had approximately 625 prisoners in another privately-operated prison in Texas for about a year. |
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