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Bids to be required on private contracts for work-release programs
By tribtown.com
Published: 05/12/2014

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Louisiana's corrections secretary says he will require bidding for private contracts to run parish work-release programs.

Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc said a recent controversy in St. Tammany Parish convinced him a better selection process is needed, The New Orleans Advocate reported.

"We will give them a format to use," LeBlanc said. "There will be points for experience, points for the per-diem cost. You'll have oral interviews. It'll be a real formal process. We need to do that."

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