February 10, 2011
Two small Calif private prisons to remain closed
Two Kern County community correctional facilities that were supposed to reopen this month and house hundreds of low-level female inmates will remain closed.
The contract awarded last year to The GEO Group to operate the facilities was pulled because of the state's budget woes, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Cassandra Hockenson said Thursday. It costs about twice as much to keep an inmate in a smaller facility compared to a larger one, she said.
"It just didn't pencil out and this administration, obviously very concerned about the budget and the cost of reducing the budget deficit, had the programs scrapped," Hockenson said...
LINK - Bakersfield.com
