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| Arizona sends prison inmates out of state |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/08/2004 |
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Arizona has sent 150 inmates to a privately operated prison in Oklahoma. That starts to implement a plan that will ultimately send more than two-thousand prisoners out of state to relieve crowding in Arizona prisons. Last Thursday, inmates from several state prisons were flown from Tucson to Oklahoma for transportation to the Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga. A Corrections Department spokeswoman says the transportation was arranged by the prison's operator, Nashville-based Corrections Corp. of America. Arizona plans to send 1,200 prisoners to the Diamondback prison and 864 to the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas. Corrections spokeswoman Cam Hunter says Arizona had 31,444 inmates - an all-time high - in its prison system before the transfer. The system has approximately four-thousand inmates more than its design capacity. |
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