Article: Private prisons endorsed

Article: State has final say on private prison's use ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... crowded that the state has been sending ... renting in other states. Dominion Asset ... complete the private prison in Stanley by ... business with the state, according to ... accept from other states. "It puts us ... avoid having the private prison there," Chvala ... come into ...

Article: Private prison outside state may ease crowds ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... sending prisoners out of state, and would be a step ... New Berlin) said the state should let the private ... Fitzgerald said 19 states have privately run institutions ... corrections, asked the state to let the private sector ... However, Jensen said a private prison remained a viable ...

Article: Thompson blames Chvala for delay on bill letting state ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... legislation needed to let the state lease a new private prison nearing completion in Stanley ... hopes of leasing it to the state. However, state law prohibits the Department ... from putting inmates in a private prison in Wisconsin. A bill that ...

Article: Union head rips private prison plan State ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 9, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... legislation that would let the state contract with private ... Assembly committee. The new state budget authorizes his ... private prisons in other states. But under current law, the state cannot do business with a private prison in Wisconsin. "The ...

Article: PRIVATE PRISON LOCKDOWN CONTINUES STATE ...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  July 20, 2000 ;     583 words ... ... into effect after a brawl at a private prison in Oklahoma holding Wisconsin prisoners ... 4,700 prisoners to out-of-state facilities to ease prison overcrowding. The last fight at a private prison holding Wisconsin inmates took ...

Article: State inmates in private prison file suit ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Wisconsin inmates held in a private prison in Tennessee have filed ... institution that the state of Wisconsin sends them ... corner the market in the private prison industry with a corporate ... CCA is based in that state, Thomsen said he and ...

Article: Private prison bid probed Former state ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  December 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Mountain News A retired state prison official stands ... charges - for helping a private prison company win a state bid while he was still ... Nolin Renfrow, former state prisons director ... 500 inmates in a private prison it proposed building ...