Private prison may expand design
Source: By JEFF TUCKER, THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN, May 11, 2006
In a contentious meeting, the Pueblo Planning and Zoning Commission continued a hearing on the development plans for a private prison near the Pueblo Memorial Airport. GEO Group, the company that plans to build the facility, submitted a new plan for the building that doubles the size and the number of beds at what it characterizes as a pre-parole and parole revocation facility, where most of the inmates would be serving the final few months of their sentences. GEO already owns the land, and the original contract with the city allows the company to build a 1,000-bed facility. But commission members Rod Johnson and Jean Latka objected to what they characterized as a substantial change from the original 500-bed facility the board approved last September.