October 4, 2010
Whitman’s Ties to Private Prisons
PRIVATE PRISON ISSUES
Public Safety Threatened
Less than a year after the AZ DOC Director made the above comment, three convicted killers escaped from an Arizona private prison resulting in a nation-wide manhunt. One escapee shot at police in Colorado and the others murdered two people in New Mexico.
CCPOA released a study over a ten year period which showed private prisons had 20 times the escapes from secure facilities than all of CDCR, which had tens of thousands more inmates.
California Liability Increased
The families of the couple murdered by the private prison escapees filed a multi-million dollar suit against the state of Arizona which contracted with the private prison. California will have greatly increased liability under Whitman’s private prison plan...
