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| Idaho Gov. drops private plan |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 02/26/2008 |
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IDAHO - Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter said Monday he's abandoned efforts to completely privatize Idaho's new prisons, yielding to lawmakers who weren't ready to let a company control a state correctional facility. Idaho still needs a new prison, but Otter will accept an arrangement in which the state owns the building and contracts with a company to run it. That's akin to the existing operation at the Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise. Otter, a former businessman, had since January been trying to sell lawmakers on allowing a private prison company such as Corrections Corp. of America, based in Tennessee, or The GEO Group, of Florida, to build a prison, own it and operate it. But many legislators said they felt a companion proposal that would have allowed companies to bring prisoners to Idaho from other states would mean giving up too much control over a necessary state function. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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