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New Mexico Continues to Let Understaffed Private Prisons Slide on Most Contract Violations
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2012, page 38
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Contractor Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Staffing.
Location:
New Mexico.
In September 2010, the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee calculated that over a four-year period, former Governor Bill Richardson (D) failed to collect $18.6 million in penalties from private prison companies that breached their contracts with the state by allowing their for-profit facilities to remain understaffed by …
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