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AZ: Senate rejects ban on certain inmates in private prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Arizona Daily Star Published: 06.19.2008 Senate rejects ban on certain inmates in private prisons By Howard Fischer CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES "It has historically been the county and communities that have welcomed the prisons because they provide jobs and economic security to the community." Sen. Rebecca Rios D-Apache Junction PHOENIX ? State lawmakers refused Wednesday to limit the kind of criminals who can be housed in private prisons in Arizona. On a 10-8 vote, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Debbie McCune Davis to bar any private prison that houses inmates from another state from accepting prisoners who have committed murder, rape and various other serious crimes, or have a history of escape. McCune Davis, D-Phoenix, said she wants to keep other states from exporting their most serious offenders to Arizona, where private companies are paid to incarcerate them...continue to full post

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