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MI-CA: GEO Group to house California prisoners in Baldwin. Private prison will operate without state oversight

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"?[Private prisons] are paying staff 8 dollars an hour and you have total amateurs dealing with serious offenders,? said FrankSmith. ?It?s not a career, its job you have between Wendy?s and McDonalds.? GEO Group to house California inmates in Baldwin Private prison will operate without state oversight By Eartha Jane Melzer 11/10/10 Thousands of violent convicted criminals will soon be moved to the tiny Lake County town of Baldwin in an arrangement that some are celebrating as a step toward improvement of the local economy. In a deal announced last week the state of California will pay GEO Group $60 million a year to house 2,580 inmates at the company?s for-profit North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin starting in May. California is under court order to reduce its prison population, and prison officials from there toured state-run prisons in Standish and Muskegon last year after Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).