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| Lawsuit filed over private prison plan in Pueblo, Colo. |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/13/2003 |
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A watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the Pueblo City Council over its plan to sell city land to a private prison firm. The Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, a nonprofit group that says prison should be a last resort, claims the council violated Colorado's open meetings law and local zoning ordinances when it committed land at the Pueblo Memorial Airport Industrial Park to the private prison firm WCC. Attorney Alison Maynard, who represents the plaintiffs, said last Wednesday the council could have avoided the court challenge by following state and local protocol. ''The open meetings law is a very simple law,'' she said. ''If they don't comply with it, they're toast. That's what the law says, and they know it.'' |
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