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OK: Republicans Push for More Prisoners to Go to Private Prisons. 3,000 "beds' in private prisons empty.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Private prisons in Oklahoma The state has six private prisons that hold about 19 percent of the prison population or 4,343 offenders. The average cost for a medium-security bed in a private prison is $17,611 a year and $23,725 for maximum security. Nearly 3,000 private-prison beds in Oklahoma are vacant, a figure that includes prisons with and without Department of Corrections contracts. Source: Oklahoma Department of Corrections Republicans dissatisfied with prison study By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau Published: 7/12/2009 OKLAHOMA CITY ? Republican legislative leaders are dissatisfied with a report on the state's correctional system done by The Durrant Group Inc. In a June 25 letter to the Iowa-based group, Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City, and House Speaker Chris Benge, R-Tulsa, ask for a cost-benefit analysis that considers the use of private prisons and evaluates additional factors, such as staffing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).