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| State withholds pay to private prisons |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/16/2008 |
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OKLAHOMA - The state Department of Corrections has withheld more than $589,000 in payments to private prisons in the past year because of staffing shortages. The shortages include a lack of medical personnel that Corrections Corporation of America says are difficult to fill because of a nationwide shortage. The decision to penalize private prisons for contract violations stems from a recommendation made in a performance audit of prisons requested last year by the Oklahoma Legislature. The state has 4,540 inmates housed in three private prisons in the state. Besides CCA facilities in Cushing and Holdenville, the third private prison that contracts with DOC is the Lawton Correctional Facility. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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