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| State hopes to hire company this fall to build new prison |
| By hutchnews.com- John Hanna |
| Published: 04/13/2017 |
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TOPEKA - Kansas could sign a contract this fall with a private company to build a new prison to replace its oldest and largest state lockup, and it is limiting the search to companies that already have built multiple prisons, documents show. The state Department of Corrections is telling potential bidders on the project, which could cost as much as $155 million, that the contract also would require them to maintain the proposed new prison in Lansing. The state also is asking for proposals under which a company initially would own and lease the prison to the cash-strapped state before the state would buy it outright. Parts of the existing Lansing prison date to the 1860s, and corrections officials believe a new prison would be safer, easier to maintain and more efficient, able to operate with 43 percent fewer workers. But some legislators see the plan as a step toward privatizing the prison system, and two key lawmakers worried Wednesday that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's administration is rushing the project. Read More. |
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