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Private prison operators go ka-CHING while catastrophe awaits Arizona's schools
Two years ago in his State of the State speech, Gov. Doug Ducey announced he’d be closing the prison in Florence in order to save the state money.
Last week, The Arizona Republic’s Jimmy Jenkins reported that the state is transferring more than 2,700 Florence inmates to a private prison in Eloy, at an increased cost to taxpayers.
This, while Arizona has more than 4,000 empty beds that could house those moderate- and high-risk inmates in existing state-run prisons.
It seems all those free drinks and the record-high campaign contributions the private prison industry has doled out to Arizona’s Republican leaders have paid off.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-prison-operators-ka-ching-190256238.html