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Kentucky Leases Closed Private Prison to Use as State Facility
Loaded on June 1, 2021
by Edward Lyon
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2021, page 36
Filed under:
Private Prisons.
Location:
Kentucky.
by Ed Lyon
Kentucky in December 2020 reopened Otter Creek Correctional Center (OCCC), leasing it from CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), but staffing it with state employed Department of Corrections (DOC) staff. Its new name is the Southeast State Correctional Complex (SSCC) and it’s now a ...
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