Management And Training Corporation
August 13, 2011
Private prison firms in hot water
Two private prison companies — GEO Group and Management and Training Corp. — involved in proposals for a prison expansion in San Luis, Ariz., are embroiled in legal battles.
GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the country, is currently a defendant in a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union for violations at its juvenile detention center in Walnut Grove, Miss.
The lawsuit contends the prison's management caused a culture of violence and exploitation by selling drugs inside the facility and entering into sexual relationships with the inmates...
LINK - YumaSun.com
August 7, 2011
Oversight lacking for private prisons
The private company that operates the Kingman prison publicly took full responsibility for last year’s breakout, in which escapees were charged with the murder of an Oklahoma couple.
But behind the scenes, Management & Training Corp. clashed with the state over a litany of problems revealed after the escapes: How to improve lax security. Whether the state should pay the company for empty beds after the state, responding to the breakout, removed high-risk prisoners and quit sending new inmates there...
LINK - TucsonCitizen.com
August 6, 2011
Security records mixed for private prison firms
An escape from a privatized prison in Kingman, Ariz., last year left two people dead and raised questions among some whether the same nightmare scenario could happen in Ohio.
The company that operates the Arizona State Prison Complex at Kingman is Utah-based Management and Training Corp., one of three for-profit corrections companies seeking to buy and operate five Ohio facilities under Gov. John Kasich’s prison privatization plan.
Escapes can and do happen at publicly operated prisons too. But a stunning lack of administrative oversight before the July 30, 2010, escape at Kingman has opponents of the Ohio plan calling it a textbook example of what can go wrong when private companies operate public corrections institutions...
LINK - DaytonDailyNews.com
August 3, 2010
Arizona cons’ private prison escape raises many questions
...While the manhunt continues, officials with the county, the Arizona Department of Corrections, and Management and Training Corp., the Utah-based company that operates the facility, are studying how the men penetrated several layers of security.
Unarmed prison officials sounded the alarm about 9 p.m. after Province, McCluskey and Renwick missed their head count, Johnson said. An hour passed before the Mohave County Sheriff's Office was notified that the men somehow had made their way through locked doors and avoided surveillance cameras, ground and fence sensors, guard towers and roving ground patrols before cutting a hole in fencing near a dormitory.
Officials are now investigating whether the escapees had inside help...
LINK - AZCentral.com
April 11, 2008
Authorities investigate reports of missing property at privately run immigration detention center
Authorities are investigating allegations of missing property from illegal immigrants held at the country's largest immigrant detention center here, officials said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials refused to comment on those allegations nor would they comment on a report that a government-issued gun also was missing at the detention center.
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Carl Stuart, a spokesman for Management and Training Corp., the Utah-based company that runs the 3,000-bed detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, acknowledged that there's an "ongoing investigation." But ICE would not comment on whether anything or anyone is being investigated at the detention center.
February 24, 2008
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…
LINK - KingmanDailyMiner.com
