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| GEO Group gets contract for Kingman prison |
| By kdminer.com- Doug McMurdo |
| Published: 10/29/2015 |
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KINGMAN - Florida-based private prison operator GEO Group will take over management of the troubled Arizona State Prison-Kingman effective Dec. 1, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections. The terms are identical to what was in place for Utah-based Management Training Corporation, which lost the contract following three days of wholesale rioting in early July. The contract runs until 2023 and will pay GEO Group more than $72 million a year, or about $60 a day per inmate, up to about 3,300 inmates, with a caveat that a much lower cost per inmate is in play for up to slightly more than 3,500 inmates. The prison in its current layout has 3,400 beds. "We appreciate the confidence placed in our company by the Arizona Department of Corrections, which is reflective of our successful, decade-long partnership with the [state]," said George Zoley, GEO Group CEO and chairman of the board, in a statement. Spokesman Pablo Paez said the prison currently holds 1,700 inmates. More than 1,200 were shipped to other detention centers after the riots, which left four of five housing pods in the Hualapai Unit uninhabitable. Paez said new inmates will arrive at the prison once repairs are completed in January. Read More. |
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