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| Group files suit to halt new private- prison deals |
| By azstarnet.com - Howard Fischer |
| Published: 09/14/2011 |
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PHOENIX - A Quaker group has filed suit to block the state from awarding any more contracts for private prisons until a better cost analysis is done. The lawsuit, filed Monday, notes that the Department of Corrections is supposed to award a contract for 5,000 additional private prison beds as early as the end of the week. Four companies have been chosen as finalists. But attorney Stacey Scheff, representing the Arizona Friends Service Committee, said a 1987 state law requires the agency to first determine if a private firm can provide the same quality as the state at a lower cost, considering security, inmate programs, health services and food services. "They've never done a study. They've admitted they've never done a study," she said. Only now is the state in the process of completing the first one. Read More. |
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