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CCA Fineable in New Contracts With Colorado and Hawaii
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2006
by Matthew T. Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2006, page 34
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Staffing.
Location:
Hawaii.
Corrections Corporation of America has signed new contracts with Colorado and Hawaii which,
for the first time, include the possibility of the states imposing liquidated damages if CCA fails
to provide the contracted services. The provisions resulted from a lengthy interruption of
services to female prisoners at a private womens ...
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