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California intends to bring up to 3,256 prisoners to CCA prisons in Colorado and Minnesota in 2012

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Private prison firm eyes Calif. contract Crowley County pact also could lead to Walsenburg reopening in 2012. November 6, 2010 By ANTHONY A. MESTAS Pueblo Chieftan OLNEY SPRINGS ? California intends to bring up to 3,256 inmates to private prisons in Colorado and Minnesota in 2012, private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America announced. Colorado's share will go to CCA's private Crowley County prison in Olney Springs, and in turn could lead to many of Crowley's existing 1,600 state inmates going to other prisons, the company said. Whether the influx will lead to a reopening of CCA's closed Huerfano County prison in Walsenburg is unknown. The state itself also has unused bed space at Colorado State Penitentiary II. The Walsenburg prison closed in April with 170 workers laid off...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 07, 2010 (boomark / email).