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NM: Questions remain about the state's dependency on for-profit prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Questions remain about the state's dependency on for-profit prisons Kate Nash | The New Mexican 7/13/2008 When the doors swing open on the Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility next month, inmates will file in , new employees will start collecting paychecks and a tiny corner of the state will become its own small economic engine. The opening marks another milestone as well. Once Clayton is online, the number of inmates living in the state's privately run prisons will almost match the number living in state-run slammers. To be exact: 46.5 percent of male inmates will be in prisons run by private companies. The other 53.5 percent will be in state-run prisons. One hundred percent of female inmates will be in private facilities. If the number of criminals behind private bars seems big, it is: New Mexico has the highest rate of private prison use in the nation, according to the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).