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CA: CCA demands 5% rate increase & threatens to move prisoners out of state

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Wednesday February 06, 2008 Private prisons demand 5 percent rate increase By CHARLES ASHBY CHIEFTAIN DENVER BUREAU DENVER - A private prison company is threatening to move all Colorado inmates out of one of its facilities if it doesn't get an increase in what the state pays to house them. Corrections Corporation of America, which operates four of the state's five private prisons, including three in Southern Colorado, is demanding that the Colorado Legislature give it a 5 percent hike in the per diem it receives to house about 4,000 state inmates, Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, said Tuesday. Buescher, chairman of the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee, said the Tennessee-based company is using its weight to try to force more money out of the state...continue to full post

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