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CCA avoids fines despite contract violations
By Associated Press
Published: 11/08/2004

Corrections Corporation of America has not faced fines for repeated contract violations at two prisons the Nashville-based company operates in Kentucky, according to a newspaper report.
Lawmakers responsible for overseeing state prisons, including private ones CCA runs, said they were unaware of the violations and the lack of fines, The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., reported last Saturday.
''In the past we may not have scrutinized it as closely as we maybe ought to have,'' said Rep. Jesse Crenshaw, D-Lexington, chairman of the House corrections budget subcommittee. ''But we're going to pay closer scrutiny as the state moves toward more privatization.''
The violations between 1999 and 2003 were ''isolated incidents'' that showed no signs of a systemic problem with the prisons' operations, said Lisa Lamb, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
''None of these rose to the level of issuance of a fine,'' Lamb said.
Lamb said some of the problems cited in the evaluations of the company also have occurred in state-run prisons.
Steve Owen, a CCA spokesman, said the evaluations showed that the state was satisfied with the company's overall performance and its efforts at correcting problems.


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