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| AZ eyes more private prison contracts |
| By businessweek.com |
| Published: 07/12/2011 |
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A company that operates an Arizona prison where three violent offenders escaped last year is among four firms that the state Department of Corrections is proposing be awarded new prison bed contracts. Utah-based Management and Training Corp. operates the prison in Kingman, which state officials have said was plagued with security flaws that allow the escape last July. Two of the three inmates who escaped are charged in New Mexico with killing an Oklahoma couple while the inmates were on the run. The state received proposals from five companies and is recommending contracts be awarded to four of them, it said in a brief notice posted late Friday on its web site. The posting said the department will send required notices to legislators and local officials this week, hold public hearings in the communities involved and plans to award contracts in September. According to information released by the state, the new prison beds could be built at sites in Eloy, Yuma, Winslow, Coolidge and Perryville, which is in Litchfield Park. The state has said it was seeking proposals for up to 5,000 minimum- and medium-security beds, but it wasn't immediately clear whether the proposed contract awards would reach that total. Read More. |
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