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Private Prisons Cheaper?
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 8
The New Mexico state DOC contends that Corrections Corporation of America has overcharged the state by nearly $2 million since the CCA-operated Women's Correctional Facility at Grants N.M. opened some eight years ago. State officials also say that CCA is not living up to a deal struck in the 1997 …
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Contractor Misconduct.
Location:
New Mexico.
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