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MS: CCA Opening New Federal Prison: 2,500 cages---400 jobs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Thursday, April 2, 2009, 8:43am CDT Corrections Corp. opens Mississippi prison Nashville Business Journal Corrections Corporation of America is opening a new prison in Natchez, Miss., that will house more than 2,500 federal prisoners and create some 400 jobs. CCA won a federal contract to house a maximum of 2,567 inmates at its new Adams County Correctional Center in southwest Misssissippi. A group of prisoners ? mostly illegal aliens in the process of being deported ? will start arriving this fall, the company says. The $128 million federal facility is the corrections company's fourth prison in Mississippi. Franklin-based CCA (NYSE:CXW) is the nation?s largest private prison operator. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour hailed the federal contract, saying in a statement that it ?fills a public need and provides good-paying jobs to Mississippians...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).