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[AZ] State lawmakers look to ease oversight on private prisons
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 04, 2012 11:25am |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Author | Jason Barry |
| News Date | Friday, May 4, 2012 06:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two convicted killers and a third dangerous criminal broke out of a medium security private prison facility in Kingman Arizona in July 2010.
The escapees were eventually caught after a nationwide manhunt, but not before an Oklahoma couple was killed.
The escape and murders that followed raised some serious questions about private prison safety standards and whether new policies should be put in place to prevent prison breaks from happening again.
Two years later, Arizona lawmakers have decided to go in a different direction.
Buried in the $8.6 billion budget proposal passed at the state Capitol this week is a plan to "eliminate the requirement for a quality and cost review of private prison contracts."
It means there would no longer be an annual review of how private prisons operate.
Campbell and other Democrats claim there's more to it, suggesting that by getting rid of the data on private prisons that show how expensive they are, will simply make it easier to get more built in the future, said Campbell.
"This is what I believe is a hand out to private prison corporations operating in Arizona right now," Campbell said. |
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