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AZ: Prison will double size in expansion

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison will double size in expansion Aaron Royster, Miner Staff Writer 2/4/2008 Management & Training Corporation announced Wednesday its intention to more than double the inmate capacity at the Kingman prison. The Utah-based company responded to a request for proposal from the Arizona Department of Corrections by submitting a bid to expand the Arizona State Prison capacity from 1,400 inmates to 3,400. "MTC is very pleased with the opportunity the Arizona Department of Corrections has given us to manage the Kingman facility at its current inmate capacity," said Odie Washington, MTC senior corrections vice president, in a news release. MTC built an effective workforce by mainly hiring from the local community, Washington said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).