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AZ: Napolitano's Bill to Bring Private Prisons Under the State's Authority, Dies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Napolitano's recurring prison bill dies, unsupported by locals By LINDSEY GEMME, Editor March 20, 2008 Senate Bill 1142, a piece of legislature which came out of Governor Janet Napolitano's office this year to bring private prisons under state authority, has just died before making it to a second hearing this month. Lawmakers had found support in Republican Senator Robert Blendu of Litchfield Park, who sponsored the bill after two felons had escaped from a Florence private prison facility back in September. If it had passed, the bill could have had a substantial impact on how Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) conducted business in its six Arizona prisons, which house over 9,000 prisoners, and subsequently have a negative impact on Pinal County and the city of Eloy...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).