Schwarzenegger To Outsource California's Inmates [View All]

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This is so wrong on so many levels, not to mention I wonder what the families of those being transferred 2,000 miles from home think about this?

Oct 21, 4:58 AM EDT
Calif. to Transfer Inmates Out of State
By DON THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California will begin shipping thousands of inmates to prisons in four other states next month at a cost of more than $51 million a year, corrections officials said Friday.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared an emergency this month to speed up the no-bid contracts with two private companies. He said the transfers are needed to ease crowding in the nation's largest prison system, where more than 172,000 inmates are crowded into space designed for about 100,000, forcing some inmates to sleep in gymnasiums and auditoriums.

The GEO Group Inc. of Florida will be paid an estimated $28.7 million a year to house as many as 1,260 inmates at its New Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana.

Tennessee-based Correctional Corporation of America will be paid a projected $22.9 million annually to house as many as 1,000 inmates at four prisons in Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee....

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