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October 07, 2006
IN: GEO to Incarcerate Prisoners from California
Private Indiana Prison to House Inmates from California
By Gene Rodriguez, News 8 @ 6:00
Oct 5, 2006 01:32 PM
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels struck a deal with California's governor that would earn Indiana millions of dollars and add jobs to the Indiana workforce.
The New Castle Correctional Facility can house more than 2,400 inmates, but it's only 40 percent full. Governor Mitch Daniels says there are inmates ready to fill the spare beds.
"No highly dangerous felons, they will be the kind of prisoners who are housed there now and for whom it was built," said Governor Daniels.
Built for Indiana's medium security inmates, now, California will send some of theirs.
"Governor Schwarzenegger was really happy about it and so are we,"
Governor Daniels said.
Daniels says he struck a deal with Governor Schwarzenegger to relieve his state's prison overcrowding problem.
"We'll make millions of dollars that, again, no taxpayer had to provide. We thought it was good business," said Governor Daniels.
The good business of housing up to 1,200 California inmates in a private prison. While the prison earns most of the money, the state will receive $6.2 million a year. The move creates 200 jobs for Hoosiers.
"As Indiana needs the beds, and we will over the next two years, we'll reclaim the units," Governor Daniels said.
The first round of inmates from California are expected as soon as next month. No seriously violent inmates, predatory offenders, sex offenders or seriously mentally ill offenders will be held at the New Castle
Correctional Facility.
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Posted by lois at October 7, 2006 08:41 PM