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CO: Joint Budget Cmte Chief Urges Prison Expansions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Pueblo Chieftain 2/7/08 JBC chief urges prison expansions By CHARLES ASHBY CHIEFTAIN DENVER BUREAU DENVER - Colorado should begin serious talks about expanding some of its state-owned prisons, the head of the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee said Tuesday. Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, is upset that private prison companies operating in the state incarcerate about 20 percent of all state inmates. He says with one company running four of the five private prisons here, they have too great a negotiating position and can dictate terms to the Legislature. One such company, Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America, is requesting a 5 percent hike in the per diem rate the state pays it or it will bar Colorado inmates from being housed in one of its facilities...continue to full post

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