Locked Up & Shipped Away:
Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry
Winter 2016 Update

January 2016

LOCKED UP & SHIPPED AWAY:
Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry
Winter 2016 Update
JANUARY 2016
This brief was compiled by Holly Kirby for Grassroots Leadership.
Design by Catherine Cunningham.
Grassroots Leadership is an Austin, Texas-based national organization that works
to end prison profiteering and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention
through direct action, organizing, research, and public education.
In November 2013, Grassroots Leadership released Locked Up and Shipped Away:
Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry,i a groundbreaking
report examining states’ practice of transferring incarcerated people en masse
from their home states to private, for-profit prisons across the United States. This
brief is an update on the status of interstate state prisoner transfers to private
prisons in the U.S. as of December 2015.

Locked Up & Shipped Away:
Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry
Winter 2016 Update

BACKGROUND
In November 2013 there were approximately 10,500 prisoners from four states — Vermont, California, Idaho,

and Hawaii — serving time across state lines in private prisons all operated by Corrections Corporation of
America (CCA). In every case and with little public scrutiny, state officials pointed to prison overcrowding as
justification for sending incarcerated people to out-of-state, for-profit prisons.

Locked Up and Shipped Away concludes that interstate transfer of prisoners is a regressive and harmful criminal
justice policy that allows state leaders to ignore root causes of prison overcrowding and delay critical, longlasting reform. Shipping prisoners far away severs crucial ties to family and community, which are proven to be
instrumental to successful reentry upon release. It also places enormous emotional and financial burdens on
the families and loved ones of those shipped away. And, by all accounts, the only group benefiting from these
transfers is private prison corporation executives and their shareholders who profit from each bed they fill.
Since the 2013 release of Locked Up and Shipped Away, the same four states — Vermont, California, Idaho,
and Hawaii — continue to house a portion of their prisoners in private prisons out of state. And, a fifth state,
Arkansas has also opted to send prisoners to a private lockup across state lines.
In two years, Vermont and California saw the most
significant declines in their out-of-state populations, with
Vermont returning nearly half of the prisoners housed
out of state and California returning more than 3,000
prisoners. Though Hawaii’s out-of-state population
declined 19% between November 2013 and December
2015, the director of the Hawaii Department of Public
Safety has said the state will need to transfer 248 more
prisoners to Arizona in 2016 to make room for facility
upgrades.ii If that transfer occurs, the number of Hawaii
prisoners housed in Arizona will return to nearly the
same count as in 2013.

Total Number of Prisoners Transferred to Out-of-State
Private Prisons Nationally, 2013-2015
10,500

2013

7,300

2015

In addition to updates from the four states highlighted in
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
the 2013 Locked Up and Shipped Away report, this brief
also includes new information on a fifth state, Arkansas, which has joined the list of states currently housing
prisoners in a private facility across state lines. Three additional states — West Virginia, Washington, and North
Dakota — either have considered or are potentially considering shipping prisoners to out-of-state, for-profit
prisons.

STATE UPDATES
State
Vermont
California
Idaho
Hawaii
Arkansas

Approximate State Prisoner Population Housed in
Private Prisons Out-Of-State
November 2013
December 2015
475
241
8,267
5,226
245
173
1,700
1,371
N/A
336

Percent Change

Current Private Prison Contractor

-49%
-37%
-15%
-19%
N/A

GEO
CCA
CCA
CCA
Bowie County, TX/ LaSalle Corrections*

Sources for Dec. 2015 out-of-state populations include e-mail communications with Public Information Officers (PIO) from VT, CA, ID, and HI
and the CDCR online Weekly Population Report.iii
* The contract to house AR prisoners at the Bowie County Correctional Facility is an agreement between Bowie County, TX and the Arkansas
Department of Corrections. However, the private prison company, LaSalle Corrections, operates the facility.

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t VERMONT
Since the 2013 release of Locked Up and Shipped Away, Grassroots Leadership has supported on-the-ground

efforts of Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform (VCJR) to reduce the prison population in order to cut ties
with private prisons and bring prisoners home. Today, the statewide petition has over 880 signatures and 37
Vermont groups and organizations have signed on to the campaign.iv
In December 2014, Grassroots Leadership released a second, Vermont-focused report, Locked Up and Shipped
Away: Paying the Price for Vermont’s Response to Prison Overcrowding,v which examines not only the state’s
controversial history of sending prisoners out of state, but also notable characteristics of Vermont’s prison
population, highlighting potential causes of prison overcrowding. It also includes a discussion of the “costsavings” argument for contracting with a private prison company — in this case, Corrections Corporation of
America, and why it is misleading. The report sheds light on both the financial and emotional costs to families of
sending Vermonters out of state, including testimony from family members. Additionally, the report includes a
section dedicated entirely to the written experiences of men who have previously or are currently serving time
in private prisons outside of Vermont, in their own words. Finally, the report highlights the current work to bring
prisoners back to Vermont and recommendations for continuing to move forward with progressive criminal
justice reform.
In May 2015, upon expiration of the state’s contract with CCA in Kentucky, a new contract to house prisoners
out of state at the controversial North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, MI was awarded to the GEO
Group.vi According to reports, the Michigan legislature passed a bill in May 2015 that allowed GEO to house
maximum security level prisoners (giving GEO more flexibility to fill the Baldwin prison), however, opponents of
the bill, “labeled the move as risky profiteering and the first step in a hidden privatization agenda for Michigan’s
corrections facilities.”vii
Owned and operated by GEO Group, “Baldwin” was at the center of several scandals and lawsuits, which left the
facility unoccupied for several years.viii The move from Kentucky to Michigan resulted in a slew of complaints
from the Vermont prisoners citing a chaotic transfer that resulted in loss of personal property, smaller cells,
no windows, less recreation, significant increase in commissary prices, lack of jobs and programming, and
unattended medical concerns.ix
Today, advocates in Vermont continue to keep this issue at the forefront of criminal justice reform in the state.
The number of Vermont prisoners out of state has decreased by nearly 50% from 475 in November 2013 to
241 today.x And, with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders - VT loudly decrying the private, for-profit prison industry
on the national stage, there is momentum to garner more support for passing reforms to decrease the state’s
incarcerated population and to mobilize opposition to the out-of-state program.xi

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E CALIFORNIA
In November 2013, there were approximately 8,267 total California prisoners incarcerated in private prisons

across state lines. As of midnight on December 30, 2015 that number decreased to 5,226 total California
prisoners in CCA-operated private prisons in Arizona and Mississippi, representing a 37% drop in the out-ofstate population in two years.xii

According to CA Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for 2015-16xiii and CCA’s 2015 second quarter earnings
call,xiv the state of California expects to reduce the number of out-of-state contract beds by approximately 4,000
by June 2016 and to vacate two of the four out-of-state facilities located in Mississippi and Oklahoma. As of
December 2015, the state had already removed all California prisoners from the Oklahoma prison.
In November 2015, CCA stated on their 2015 third quarter earnings call that while the state continues to reduce
its utilization of out-of-state beds, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) did
renew their out-of-state contract with CCA through June 30, 2019. According to CCA CEO Damon Hininger, “The
contract renewal provides for just over 6,500 beds to be made available to California.”xv Currently, the state is
only utilizing 5,226.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Garcia, a graduate student in Social Documentation at the University of California at
Santa Cruz, produced a short 20-minute documentary titled Out of Sight, Out of Mind, in which California
prisoner Anthony Robinson Jr. takes great risks to tell his story from inside a for-profit prison in Mississippi.
The film documents the expensive and traumatic practice of shipping state prisoners to out-of-state private
prisons, while providing Robinson a platform to “dissect a system that has made him a commodity to be bought
and sold.”xvi The film can be utilized as an organizing and educational tool to raise consciousness around the
destructive impacts of incarceration and prison profiteering.

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M IDAHO
In May 2013, there were 245 Idaho prisoners housed across state lines at the CCA-run Kit Carson Correctional

Center in Burlington, CO. As of the December 30, 2015, the out-of-state population housed at the Colorado CCA
prison dipped to 173, representing a 15% decrease from 2013, though the contract allows the state to use up to
750 beds.xvii

The state continues to contract with CCA to house prisoners out of state despite a multi-year controversy over
allegations of fraud and staffing discrepancies at the CCA-operated Idaho Correctional Center, dubbed the
“Gladiator School” based on its history of violence inside.
According to an Idaho Statesman report, after an investigation by the Associated Press uncovered falsified
staffing documents, an auditing firm hired by the state’s DOC “determined the company left more than 26,000
hours of mandatory guard posts understaffed or inadequately covered during 2012, though CCA disputed
those numbers as inflated.” Before an official investigation could be completed, Idaho Governor Butch Otter
reached a legal settlement with CCA in which the company paid the state $1 million and Idaho forfeited its right
to sue over staffing.xviii
The state has since decided not to renew their contract with CCA at the Idaho Correctional Center and has taken
over management of the facility, which has been renamed the Idaho State Correctional Center. However, the
state maintains a partnership with the private prison company to house prisoners out of state at the Colorado
prison.
The ACLU of Idaho continues to play an active role in pushing for reforms to criminal justice policy, including
efforts to reduce prison overcrowding and eliminate the rationale to send Idahoans to for-profit prisons out of
state.

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K HAWAII
In November 2013, approximately 1,700 Hawaii prisoners were housed thousands of miles away at the Saguaro

Correctional Center, operated by Corrections Corporation of America, in Eloy, AZ. As of December 30, 2015, the
out-of-state population dropped to 1,371, representing a 19% decline from 2013.xix However, according to a
media report, the director of the Hawaii Department of Public Safety said the state would need to transfer 248
more prisoners to Arizona in 2016 in order to upgrade deteriorating Hawaii facilities.xx If that transfer occurs, the
number of Hawaii prisoners housed in Arizona will be nearly the same as it was in 2013. The Legislature has set
aside nearly $6 million for the transfer.
Meanwhile, Hawaii Governor David Ige hopes to move forward with a plan to partner with a private prison
company to build a new prison. The company, which he did not name, would pay for the construction of the
prison, and then lease it back to the state. The plan would also allow for the construction of the prison without
appropriated funds from the Legislature, however, the State Procurement Office would have to approve the
arrangement in order for it to move forward. As of August 2015, the plan is “just an idea at this stage, without a
private prison partner, a timetable or approvals.”xxi
Kat Brady, coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons, remains a voice of opposition to prison expansion
in Hawaii. According to Brady, “They’re spending (the money) to build capacity — without thinking about who’s
in prison,” she said. “What we have to do is reduce sentencing. We have people in prison who do not need to be
there. An unintended consequence is that we’re creating a criminal underclass.”xxii

C

ARKANSAS

A

ccording to a media report from October 2014, the Arkansas Senate and House Committees of State Agencies
and Governmental Affairs met to discuss possible solutions to prison overcrowding, including shipping
prisoners to a for-profit prison in Louisiana.xxiii LaSalle Corrections, a private jail operator, offered to house up to
500 Arkansas prisoners at a cost of $28.50 per day. At the time, the state was relying on Arkansas county jails
across the state to house over 2,300 overflow state prisoners. In response to the news, prison reform advocacy
group, Arkansas CURE released a statement and petition to oppose the transfer, citing Grassroots Leadership’s
report Locked Up and Shipped Away.xxiv
In April 2015, media reported that Arkansas officials opted to enter a $2.5 million contract with Bowie County
Texas to house up to 288 Arkansas prisoners at the Bowie County Correctional Center in Texarkana, TX.xxv An
amendment was later added to increase that number to 336 and extend the contract through June 30,
2016.xxvi While the contract to house AR prisoners at the Bowie County Correctional Facility is an agreement
between Bowie County, TX and the Arkansas Department of Corrections, the private prison company, LaSalle
Corrections, will also profit as the company that manages the jail.xxvii
The state is reportedly looking for solutions to overcrowding, including Act 1206 of 2015, “which allows the
governor to approve contracts with counties to house state prisoners in regional correctional facilities,” citing
a “guaranteed revenue stream” that counties would find appealing. While state officials “expect other, more
innovative approaches to prison overcrowding to have a more long-term impact than shuttling inmates across
state lines,”xxiii they should also avoid alternatives such as relying on county jails and Act 1206, which similarly do
not address the underlying problems driving mass incarceration and prison overcrowding. Creating a financial
incentive to counties for the state to incarcerate more people is not a solution.
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Interstate Prisoner Transfers to Private Prisons and Jails, December 2015

While five states currently utilize for-profit prison beds across state lines, the
following section highlights three additional states that either have considered
or are potentially considering shipping prisoners to out-of-state, for-profit
prisons.

w WEST VIRGINIA
In the fall of 2013, at the time Locked Up and Shipped Away was released, West Virginia was considering a plan

to ship up to 400 prisoners to a private prison in Kentucky.xxix In fact, it was the same CCA-run prison where
Vermont prisoners were housed at that time. Grassroots Leadership and advocates in West Virginia organized
to stop the state from moving forward. In January, we delivered a sign-on letter to state officials signed by more
than thirty national and state groups voicing opposition to the plan.xxx And, in June, Grassroots Leadership wrote
an open letter to West Virginia prisoners — raising awareness of their constitutional right as West Virginians to
stay in their home state.xxxi In October 2014, news reports announced that the state decided to abandon that
plan and the option is no longer on the table.xxxii
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u WASHINGTON
In the same month news broke that Vermont prisoners would be transferred from Kentucky to Michigan, GEO

Group announced it had been awarded a contract to house up to 1,000 Washington state prisoners at the same
prison it would house Vermonters — the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan.xxxiii However,
despite the contract award, the Washington DOC said in May 2015 that there was not an operational plan to
utilize the GEO Group contract. Rather, sending prisoners out of state would be a “last resort” option.xxxiv
Opponents of the contract in Washington included the Washington ACLU, the Teamsters Local 117,xxxv and WA
state Senator Jeannie Darneille, who said the state has time to make sustainable policy changes that would
alleviate prison overcrowding and keep the state from having to send any prisoners out of state.xxxvi
On November 18, 2015, seven Seattle City Council members, the Seattle Human Rights Commission, and
over twenty-five community organizations sent a letter to WA DOC Secretary Dan Pacholke and Governor Jay
Inslee expressing their concern over the state’s contract with GEO Group. The letter stated concerns about
GEO Group’s history of prisoner mistreatment and human rights abuses, which disproportionately impact
communities of color. Additionally, according to the report, “The letter calls on the DOC to address the root
causes of the overcrowding problem in Washington State prisons. According to council members, doing so
requires a focus on eliminating racial inequities in the criminal justice system.”xxxvii
As of the writing of this brief, the Washington State DOC has yet to send any Washington prisoners to the GEO
Group facility in Michigan.

b

NORTH DAKOTA

A

ccording to media reports from May and October 2015, North Dakota Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation director Leann Bertsch intends to join the ranks of other state officials who have resorted to outof-state private prisons to alleviate prison overcrowding. The report states that Bertsch said “it’s very likely” the
state will reach an agreement with Corrections Corporation of America to send some North Dakota prisoners to
a for-profit prison in Colorado, though she did not say the name of the facility.xxxviii
This would not be the first time North Dakota has turned to private prisons across state lines. It once transferred
prisoners to a for-profit prison in Minnesota, which Bertsch believes would be a better option than Colorado.
As of the writing of this brief, North Dakota did not have any prisoners housed out of state.xxxix

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CONCLUSION
The practice of shipping incarcerated people to out-of-state, for-profit prisons as a tactic to alleviate prison

overcrowding is shortsighted, costly, and harmful to families and communities. Relying on for-profit prisons
across state lines allows state leaders to delay critical, long lasting reform needed to address the root causes of
mass incarceration and prison overcrowding. The only group that stands to benefit is private prison corporation
executives and their shareholders.
Though Vermont, California, Idaho, and Hawaii have decreased the number of prisoners shipped out of state
since 2013, Arkansas has once again resorted to out-of-state beds and Washington and North Dakota may
potentially follow suit.
While decreasing the number of prisoners sent to for-profit prisons across state lines is a step in the right
direction, work remains to reduce incarceration and end the practice entirely. States should also avoid building
new prisons, utilizing beds in local jails, or contracting with public facilities in other jurisdictions as strategies
for addressing prison overcrowding. These strategies do not aim to reduce reliance on criminalization and
incarceration and they perpetuate the mass incarceration crisis, which disproportionately harms the poor and
communities of color. States across the country should prioritize policy changes that reduce incarceration, cut
ties with prison profiteers, and support and strengthen families and communities.
xiii.	

REFERENCES
i.	

Grassroots Leadership, Locked Up and Shipped Away: Interstate Prisoner
Transfers and the Private Prison Industry. November 2013. http://
grassrootsleadership.org/sites/default/files/ uploads/locked_up_
shipped_away.pdf

ii.	

Kaneya, R., “Ige: Number of Hawaii Inmates Imprisoned in Arizona Will Go
Up Before it Goes Down,” Civil Beat, August 3, 2015. http://www.civilbeat.
com/2015/08/ige-number-of-hawaii-inmates-imprisoned-in-arizonawill-go-up-before-it-goes-down/

iii.	

CDCR Weekly Population Report, December 30, 2015. http://www.cdcr.
ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information_Services_Branch/
WeeklyWed/TPOP1A/TPOP1Ad151230.pdf

iv.	

Nation Inside, Locked Up and #ShippedAway-VT Campaign, http://
nationinside.org/campaign/shipped-away/

v.	

Grassroots Leadership, Locked Up and Shipped Away: Paying the Price
for Vermont’s Response to Prison Overcrowding. December 2014. http://
grassrootsleadership.org/sites/default/files/reports/locked_up_shipped_
away_vt_web.pdf

vi.	

GEO Group, Press Release, “The GEO Group Announces Contract for Housing
of Vermont Inmates at North Lake Correctional Facility in Michigan,”
Business Wire, May 20, 2015. http://www.businesswire.com/news/
home/20150520005723/en/GEO-Group-Announces-Contract-HousingVermont-Inmates#.VdXayyxViko

vii.	

viii.	

Heinlein, G., “Senate Oks reopening Mich. prison for Vermont inmates,”
The Detroit News, May 27, 2015. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/
news/politics/2015/05/27/reopening-michigan-prison-vermontinmates/28022811/
Grassroots Leadership, “Michigan May Re-open Troubled GEO Prison,”
February 23, 2012. http://grassrootsleadership.org/blog/2012/02/
michigan-may-re-open-troubled-geo-prison

ix.	

Hewitt, E., “Inmate articulates concerns about conditions at Michigan
prison,” VT Digger, August 2, 2015. http://vtdigger.org/2015/08/02/
inmate-articulates-concerns-about-conditions-at-michigan-prison/

x.	

Turner, D., VT DOC Public Records Officer, Email Communication, January
8, 2016.

xi.	

Bernie Sanders, United States Senator for Vermont, Press Release “Sanders,
House Leaders Introduce Bill to Ban Private Prisons,” September 17, 2015.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sandershouse-leaders-introduce-bill-to-ban-private-prisons

xii.	

See 3.

xiv.	

xv.	

Edmund G. Brown Jr., CA Governor, “California 2015-16 State Budget,”
State of California. June 2015. http://www.dof.ca.gov/documents/
FullBudgetSummary-2015.pdf

xxix.	

Corrections Corporation of America’s (CXW) CEO Damon Hininger on
Q2 2015 Results – Earnings Call Transcript, August 8, 2015. http://
seekingalpha.com/article/3417446-corrections-corporation-of-americascxw-ceo-damon-hininger-on-q2-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript

Cohen, A., “Yes, West Virginia, a private prison transfer is a terrible idea.”
The Week, February 5, 2014. http://theweek.com/articles/451644/yeswest-virginia-private-prison-transfer-terrible-idea

xxx.	

Corrections Corporation of America’s (CXW) CEO Damon Hininger on
Q3 2015 Results – Earnings Call Transcript, November 6, 2015. http://
seekingalpha.com/article/3659136-corrections-corporation-ofamericas-cxw-ceo-damon-hininger-on-q3-2015-results-earnings-calltranscript?page=4

Grassroots Leadership, “31 West Virginia and National Groups Send Letter
to Opposed Shipping West Virginia Prisoners Out of State to a Private,
For-Profit Prison,” January 7, 2014. http://grassrootsleadership.org/
releases/2014/01/31-west-virginia-and-national-groups-send-letteroppose-shipping-west-virginia

xxxi.	

Grassroots Leadership, “Open letter to WV prisoners: Beware of private
prisons before signing away your rights,” January 30, 2014. http://
grassrootsleadership.org/blog/2014/01/open-letter-wv-prisonersbeware-private-prisons-signing-away-your-rights

xvi.	

Garcia, B., “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” Sina Productions, 2015. http://
www.benjamin-garcia.com/outofsightoutofmind/

xvii.	

Ray, J., ID DOC Public Information Officer, Email Communication, January
6, 2016.

xviii.	 Boone, R., “Feds will not charge former private Idaho prison operator
over falsified time cards,” Idaho Statesman, May 20, 2015. http://
www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/
article40859958.html
xix.	

Schwartz, T., HI DPS Public Information Officer, Email Communication,
January 7, 2016.

xx.	

See 2.

xxi.	

Editorial, “Governor’s Idea for New Halawa Prison Deserves
Exploration,” Civil Beat, August 5, 2015. http://www.upwhawaii.org/
OurUnionOurFamily/governor2019s-idea-for-new-halawa-prisondeserves-exploration

xxii.	

xxviii.	 See 29.

See 2.

xxiii.	 King, R., “Legislative committee seeks solutions to prison overcrowding,”
Arkansas News, October 20, 2014. http://arkansasnews.com/news/
arkansas/legislative-committee-seeks-solutions-prison-overcrowding
xxiv.	

Brantley, M., “Opposition to private prisons in Arkansas,” Arkansas
Times, November 2, 2014. http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/
archives/2014/11/02/opposition-to-private-prisons-in-arkansas

xxv.	

Lyon, J., “Texas again aiding Arkansas with prison crowding; other fixes
planned,” Arkansas News, April 20, 2015. http://arkansasnews.com/
news/arkansas/texas-again-aiding-arkansas-prison-crowding-otherfixes-planned

xxvi.	 Frye, C., AR DOC Public Information Officer, Phone and Email
Communication, January 12, 2016.

xxxii.	 Miller, T., “Tom Miller: Sales of meth-making ingredient drop in W.Va.,”
The Herald Dispatch, October 26, 2014. http://www.herald-dispatch.
com/opinion/tom-miller-sales-of-meth-making-ingredient-drop-in-w/
article_97a06e5d-beef-5af9-ad91-d9a5430f69bd.html
xxxiii.	 GEO Group, Press Release, “The GEO Group Announces Contract to House
Washington Inmates at North Lake Correctional Facility in Michigan,”
Business Wire, May 21, 2015. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/geo-groupannounces-contract-house-123400515.html
xxxiv.	 Jenkins, A., “Washington Prisons Secretary Says No Plans to Ship Inmates
Out-of-State,” NW News Network, May 26, 2015. http://nwnewsnetwork.
org/post/washington-prisons-secretary-says-no-plans-ship-inmatesout-state
xxxv.	 Teamsters Local 117, Press Release, “Private Prison Group Inaccurately
Represents Contract with DOC,” May 21, 2015. http://www.teamsters117.
org/private_prison_group_inaccurately_represents_contract_with_doc
xxxvi.	 Sullivan, J., “Overcrowding to force state to export prisoners to Michigan,”
Seattle Times, June 2, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/
overcrowding-to-force-state-to-send-prisoners-to-michigan-facility/
xxxvii.	 Seattle City Council, “RE: Department of Corrections Contract with GEO
Group Inc.,” September 28, 2015. http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/
Departments/SeattleHumanRightsCommission/shrc-geo_group-092815.
pdf
xxxviii.	 Associated Press, “ND likely to ship inmates out of state to curb
overcrowding,” News OK, October 25, 2015. http://newsok.com/article/
feed/909847
xxxix.	 Linster, M.L., ND DOCR Public Informat

xxvii.	 Parr, J., “Bowie County Corrections to house 288 Arkansas inmates,” KTBS
3, March 2, 2015. http://www.ktbs.com/story/28241102/bowie-countycorrections-to-house-288-arkansas-inmates

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LOCKED UP & SHIPPED AWAY:
Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry
Winter 2016 Update
JANUARY 2016
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