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Report Faults Private Prison Company for Deadly Arizona Prison Break
Loaded on March 15, 2011
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2011, page 24
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Management and Training Corporation,
Crime/Demographics,
Escapes,
Murder by Escapees.
Location:
Arizona.
On August 19, 2010, the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) issued a report concerning the July 30 escape of three prisoners from a privately-operated prison in Kingman, Arizona. The report was highly critical of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), the for-profit firm that runs the Kingman facility.
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