The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog: CCA demands 5% rate increase & threatens to move prisoners out of state

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Wednesday February 06, 2008
Private prisons demand 5 percent rate increase
By CHARLES ASHBY
CHIEFTAIN DENVER BUREAU

DENVER - A private prison company is threatening to move all Colorado inmates out of one of its facilities if it doesn't get an increase in what the state pays to house them.

Corrections Corporation of America, which operates four of the state's five private prisons, including three in Southern Colorado, is demanding that the Colorado Legislature give it a 5 percent hike in the per diem it receives to house about 4,000 state inmates, Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, said Tuesday....SOURCE