Exporting state's inmates / Packed prisons get some relief; critics want reforms
Source: By Steve Schmid, San Diego Union Tribune (CA), November 19, 2006
...... Faced with packed prisons, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is transferring inmates to out-of-state facilities for the first time. About 2,200 inmates, all volunteers, will be moved to private, medium-security prisons in four states, including the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona. The Schwarzenegger administration recently signed three-year contracts with the nation's two biggest, publicly traded private prison operators: Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group.