"three Arizona prisons must be filled to capacity under terms of its contract with Management and Training Corporation. If those beds aren’t filled, the state must compensate the company.The report found that occupancy requirements were standard language in contracts drawn up by big private prison companies. One of those, The Corrections Corporation of America, made an offer last year to the governors of 48 states to operate their prisons on 20-year contracts. That offer included a demand that those prisons remain 90 percent full for the duration of the operating agreement. The report found 41 of the 62 contracts reviewed contained occupancy requirements, with the highest occupancy rates found in Arizona, Oklahoma and Virginia. "
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:42:40 +0000
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