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CA: CCA to build prison for illegal immigrants in San Diego Co.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

San Diego County approves immigrant prison SAN DIEGO, May 26, 2009 (UPI) -- Local officials in the San Diego area have approved a private company's plans for a prison to house more than 2,000 illegal immigrants. The 40-acre site on Otay Mesa is close to a San Diego County prison and to the San Diego Correctional Facility, which Corrections Corp. of America already operates under contract to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. CCA's plans call for 1,488 beds in the first phase of the new facility and 684 in the second, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Tuesday. The existing immigrant detention center holds 700 people. The county planning commission approved the plans last month, the newspaper said. The existing CCA facility is on land with a lease that expires in 2015...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).