August 11, 2009
City-run prison holding CA state inmates to be sold to privateer for feds?
Grappling with depleted reserves amid a cash-flow crisis, the city is looking to sell the city-owned Adelanto Community Correctional Facility to a private corporation for $28 million.
"It would give the cash infusion that would help us be able to continue city services until we are able to get back on our feet from the economic situation," said Adelanto City Manager Jim Hart.
City officials said they are confident that the proposed sale to Florida-based The Geo Group Inc. would not result in substantial layoffs to the facility's roughly 100 employees…
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