Panel rejects inmate transport plan / Sheriff won't rule out pursuit of privatization later
Source: By STEVE SCHULTZE, Journal Sentinel (WI), Oct. 16, 2007
A Milwaukee County Board committee on Tuesday rejected a plan by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to privatize inmate transport services with a company in Nashville, Tenn.
....... The finance committee voted 6-0 to reject the $1.5 million privatization plan, after the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association presented information critical of TransCor America. The material included news accounts of escapes of prisoners being transported by TransCor, which bills itself as the largest inmate transport company in the United States.
...... The company, a subsidiary of private prison operator Corrections Corp. of America, would have trained and armed personnel driving the prisoner vans, Clarke said.