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Cornell Wins $19.5 Million Alaska Contract; CCA Protest Denied

Loaded on May 15, 2010 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News May, 2010, page 22
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Financing, Cornell Corrections. Locations: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado.
by Matt Clarke

In September 2009, Alaskan officials denied a protest filed by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which was the final hurdle before awarding Cornell Corrections of Alaska (a subsidiary of Cornell Corrections) a contract worth $19,446,000 to house up to 900 Alaskan prisoners in an out-of-state private prison. ...

 

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