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IN: One step forward and two steps back. Ind. reaches prison expansion deal with GEO

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

One stop forward and two steps back.... Ind. reaches prison expansion deal with company Associated Press December 15, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-prisonexpansion,0,3865719.storychicagotribune.com Indiana has reached a deal with a company that operates a central Indiana prison calling for the private company to build a 512-bed addition for maximum-security inmates. Gov. Mitch Daniels announced the contract with The GEO Group Inc. on Wednesday. Under the agreement, GEO will finance and operate the annex next to the New Castle Correctional Facility about 40 miles east of Indianapolis. The addition is expected to be completed by February 2012, giving the prison complex a total capacity of 3,196 beds. The state will pay $37 per inmate per day to house maximum security prisoners at the annex...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).