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FL: GEO Proposed 3,000 cage prison near Florida City

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Corporation offers to build prison near Florida City GEO Group proposes to build a 3,000-bed correctional facility near Florida City that would cost $100 million and create 900 jobs. BY KYLE BAILEY Special to The Miami Herald A corporation wants to build a 3,000-bed correctional facility near Florida City. If approved, the GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections, would build the $100 million complex at the northeast corner of Southwest 382nd Street and 187th Avenue in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. It would add 900 jobs, said Jerry Proctor, a lawyer representing the GEO Group. He presented the company's plan at Tuesday's Florida City Commission meeting. Proctor said the company would seek zoning approval from the Board of County Commissioners in ``about two to three weeks...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).