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Mississippi Pays $6 Million for Empty Prison Bunks
Loaded on July 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 8
Mississippi Pays $6 Million For Empty Prison Bunks
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Financing,
State Legislation.
Location:
Mississippi.
by Matthew T. Clarke
In a highly politicized move, the Mississippi Legislature passed a budget paying Wackenhut Corporation (WC) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) millions of dollars for unneeded private prison bunks, despite Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove's attempts to prevent it. ...
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