Think Outside the Cage: CCA Nearly Done Moving Prisoners

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

CCA Nearly Done Moving Prisoners

The Examiner

PUEBLO, Colo. -

The state Department of Corrections expects to be done moving more than 600 Colorado inmates out of the Huerfano County Correctional Facility in southern Colorado by the end of the week.

Corrections Corporation of America announced in March that it would transfer all Colorado inmates out of the private prison to make room for 752 inmates from Arizona. It characterized the move as a business decision.

The Colorado inmates will go to CCA prisons in Crowley, Bent and Kit Carson counties.

Corrections Department spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti says there are about 200 Colorado inmates left to move.

She says CCA will still be under contract with the department to operate the Huerfano County facility, and the department will continue providing oversight.