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Kentucky transfers prisoners out of CCA Prison Leaving Only VT Prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Kentucky pulls inmates out of privately run prison By BRETT BARROUQUERE Business Week- June 22, 2010 LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kentucky has pulled its inmates out of a privately run prison in the eastern part of the state because of what state officials describe as budget concerns, leaving only out-of-state inmates at the facility. The last Kentucky inmates at the Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville left the facility June 14, said Lisa Lamb, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Corrections. "It's part of our effort to reduce our financial burden," Lamb said. The prison, owned and operated by Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corp. of America, houses about 560 inmates on contract for Vermont, which uses out-of-state prisons to alleviate overcrowding...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).