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After several profitable years in the 1990s, companies contracting prison beds to public corrections agencies were losing revenue at an alarming rate. There were too many prison beds and too few prisoners. In a news release at the time, a company principal heralded the San Diego agreement as one of the largest contracts ever to [...]

ORDWAY - Two people died Tuesday as a massive grass fire raced across thousands
of acres of tinder-dry land, burning at least four homes and causing the evacuation of
1,100 residents here. The Crowley County Correctional Facility, a private prison 12 miles west of Ordway,
was not in danger, she said. Colorado Highway 96 was closed from the [...]