March 20, 2008
Opinion: “Stop importing murderers and sex offenders into Arizona!”
On September 17, 2006, two Washington state inmates - each serving more than fifty years for murder - escaped from a private prison in Florence. One inmate was captured within hours by the Pinal County Sheriff's Office; the other made it all the way to Washington State before he was caught almost a month later.
It wasn't luck. It took these two murderers less than an hour to defeat the prison's physical plant and administration. They made it from their cells to the street without detection. The prison they ran from is operated by the Correctional Corporation of America (CCA), a private company that has repeatedly failed to detect and deter escapes. Today, there are a total of eleven private prisons in Arizona. Six of them take all of their prisoners from out of state.
LINK - ZWire.com (Casa Grande Valley News)
