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California Plans To Send Hundreds More Inmates To Private Oklahoma Prison
11-06-2009 02:47 AM MST
| By ###Jim Gold/psl
(Oklahoma City, OK) -- California plans to send more than 13-hundred inmates to the privately run North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre. The move should create 200 jobs with benefits at the prison operated by Corrections Corporations of America. The company houses 79-hundred inmates at its facilities in several states. Private prisons in Oklahoma now house nearly 49-hundred out-of-state inmates from California and Arizona.
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