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| Colorado Department of Corrections gets $10.6M to lease private prison |
| By canoncitydailyrecord.com- Noelle Phillips |
| Published: 09/21/2017 |
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The Colorado Department of Corrections will receive $10.6 million to temporarily lease a private prison to relieve crowded conditions in the state prison system. But the Colorado Legislature's Joint Budget Committee declined Wednesday to spend money to update the Centennial Correctional Facility-South, a shuttered prison designed to hold inmates in solitary confinement. State law does not allow inmates to be held at the prison, which also is known as Colorado State Penitentiary II. The money will allow the corrections department to add 250 beds by leasing a private prison building. The money also will pay for 70 new full-time employees and furniture such as new mattresses. Read More. |
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