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Arizona: Prison to more than double capacity

If Management & Training Corporation builds it, the inmates will come. The Utah-based company was awarded a contract by the State Procurement Office to add 2,000 minimum-security inmates to their Kingman prison. Senior Procurement Specialist Alicia Bewsey said MTC was awarded the contract from the Arizona Department of Corrections on Feb. 15. They were competing against two other companies: Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group. With a current inmate population of around 1,400, the expansion will more than double the size of the location on the Interstate 40 industrial corridor. MTC will have half of the 2,000 beds filled by August 2009, Bewsey said…

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