Department of Corrections to transfer 2,260 prisoners to private out-of-state facilities.
Source: By Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee (CA), Saturday, October 21, 2006
The first transfers of California inmates to private, out-of-state prisons are scheduled to take place next month under two no-bid contracts the overstuffed Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation signed Friday. Under the deals worked out with the GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America, the state will move 2,260 inmates out of its jampacked prisons over the next 120 days to private institutions in Indiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee.