Colorado Inmates Out, Arizona Inmates In
Prison Making Room For 752 Inmates
POSTED: 11:27 am MDT March 24, 2009
UPDATED: 11:47 am MDT March 24, 2009
WALSENBURG, Colo. -- A private prison is planning to transfer its Colorado inmates to other facilities to make room for 752 inmates from Arizona.The Colorado inmates will be moved from the Huerfano County Correctional Center to other facilities in Colorado run by Corrections Corporation of America(CCA), according to the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper.No Colorado statute keeps the state from accepting inmates from other states.
CCA has four private prisons in Colorado. The CCA prison in Walsenburg opened in November 1997.State Rep. Liane "Buffie" McFadyen, D-Pueblo West, is not happy about the plan. She told the newspaper, "Coloradans should be concerned because earlier this year we heard that there was a question of whether or not they wanted to dump the Guantanamo Bay detainees in Colorado and now we are hearing they want to dump Arizona's inmates here. Why would we want Arizona's criminals in Colorado?"
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