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GA:: CCA takes over jail as ICE detention center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 9, 2009 CCA bringing 160 jobs to Georgia Atlanta Business Chronicle Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) landed a contract to manage detainee populations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the North Georgia Detention Center in Gainesville, Ga. The deal will bring 160 jobs to Hall County. Nashville, Tenn.-based CCA will house up to 500 ICE detainees at the facility. The company will lease the former Hall County Jail for 20 years with two five-year renewal options. CCA expects to open the facility during the second quarter. The facility will employ 160 correctional professionals in security, facility management, accounting, health services, human resources, business management, quality assurance and education. Georgia?s soaring inmate population is overwhelming its capacity, and the state Department of Corrections has turned to the private sector to help fill the gap...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).