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| AZ weighs decision on new private prisons |
| By dcourier.com - PAUL DAVENPORT |
| Published: 08/22/2011 |
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PHOENIX - Arizona has concluded public hearings on plans to award contracts to add thousands of privately operated prison beds at several locations around the state, including two proposed by a company that operates a prison where a 2010 escape produced a bloody aftermath. Corrections Department officials weighing the competing proposals heard extensive testimony from community leaders and others supporting the various companies' proposals for the jobs that the facilities would provide. But concerns also have been voiced about expanding the state's reliance on private prisons with the plan to add 5,000 minimum- and medium-security beds authorized by legislators in 2009. Read More. |
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