Arizona Prison Privatization Overview
Arizona Prison Privatization Overview
May 2010
There are currently eleven privately operated prisons located in the state of Arizona that we are aware of. Five are contracted with the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to hold Arizona prisoners, while the other six are operated by Corrections Corporation of America and are contracted with federal bureaus and other states. The state has also contracted with a private prison facility to house Arizona prisoners in Oklahoma. This report does not include information on privately operated county jails, tribal facilities, juvenile facilities, or immigrant detention centers in Arizona, although there are a substantial number of these. The following is a summary of the basic information about each facility, beginning with those contracted with ADC.
Privately Operated prisons located in Arizona housing Arizona prisoners
The state of Arizona pays two private, for-profit corporations to house Arizona prisoners in five facilities located in the state of Arizona.
Marana Community Correctional Treatment Facility
Location: Marana, AZ
Operated by: Management and Training Corporation, Ogden Utah
Contracted with: Arizona Department of Corrections
Security level: Minimum
Capacity: 450
Population: Adult male offenders who have demonstrated a need for substance or alcohol abuse intervention.
Arizona State Prison—Kingman
Location: Kingman, AZ
Operated by: Management and Training Corporation, Ogden Utah
Contracted with: Arizona Department of Corrections
Security level: Minimum/Medium
Capacity: 1,508 (Currently under construction adding 2,000 additional beds)
Population: Adult male offenders who have demonstrated a need for substance or alcohol abuse intervention.
Arizona State Prison—Phoenix West
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Operated by: GEO Group, Boca Raton, Fla
Contracted with: Arizona Department of Corrections
Opened: April 1996
Security level: 2 (Low)
Capacity: 400
Population: Adult males convicted of felony DUI.
Arizona State Prison—Florence West
Location: Florence, AZ
Operated by: GEO Group, Boca Raton, Fla
Contracted with: Arizona Department of Corrections
Opened: December 2006 (1996?)
Security level: 2 (Low)
Capacity: 750
Population: Adult males convicted of DUI (500) and “Return To Custody” prisoners convicted of parole violations (250).
Arizona State Prison—Central Arizona Correctional Facility (CACF)
Location: Florence, AZ
Operated by: GEO Group, Boca Raton, Fla
Contracted with: Arizona Department of Corrections
Opened: December 2006
Security level: Medium
Capacity: 1,000
Population: Male sex offenders
Privately operated prisons housing Arizona prisoners in other states
Arizona also contracts with private, for-profit prison corporations to house our prisoners in their facilities located in other states.
Great Plains Correctional Facility
Location: Hinton, OK
Operated by: Cornell Companies, Houston, TX
Opened: September, 2007
Security level: Minimum/Medium
Capacity: 916
Population: Male offenders
Privately operated prisons located in Arizona that do NOT house AZ prisoners (exclusively)
Yes, there are private prisons located in AZ that have no dealings with the Arizona Department of Corrections. They typically contract with the federal government (Immigration, Federal Marshalls) or other states’ departments of corrections (Alaska, Hawaii) to house their prisoners here. All of these facilities are operated by Corrections Corporation of America, and all are located in Pinal County (Florence and Eloy areas). The Arizona Daily Star, at the opening of Red Rock Correctional Center, remarked that Tennessee-based CCA is now the town of Eloy’s largest employer.
You can visit CCA’s website for facility information: http://www.correctionscorp.com/facilities/?state=AZ
There is currently no state oversight over these prisons. They are not obligated to report what types of prisoners they are incarcerating. They do not have to alert local authorities when there are disturbances or riots in their prisons. They do not have to make public the records of their costs, employment rates, or operations the way government run facilities do.
Central Arizona Detention Center, Florence, AZ
Operated by: Corrections Corporation of America, Nashville, TN
Contracted with: US Marshals Service, INS, State of Hawaii
Security level: Multi-level
Capacity: 2,304
Population: Adult males
Ethnic distribution: Unavailable
Eloy Detention Center, Eloy, AZ
Operated by: Corrections Corporation of America
Contracted with: Federal Bureau of Prisons and INS
Security level: Low
Capacity: 1,500
Population: Adult males
Ethnic distribution: Unavailable
Florence Correctional Center, Florence, AZ
Operated by: Corrections Corporation of America
Contracted with: US Marshals Service, State of California, INS, State of Washington
Security level: Medium
Capacity: 1,600
Population: Adult men and women
Ethnic distribution: Roughly equal populations of Native Americans from Alaska and Samoans and other pacific islanders from Hawaii.
La Palma Correctional Center, Eloy Arizona
Operated by: Corrections Corporation of America
Contracted with: California Dept of Corrections
Security level: Not provided on webpage
Capacity: 3,060
Population: Adult men
Opened: June 2008
Red Rock Correctional Center, Eloy, AZ
Operated by: Corrections Corporation of America
Contracted with: Prisoner population no longer listed on CCA webpage. Formerly listed as: State of Hawaii, Alaska, Washington.
Security level: Medium
Capacity: 1,500: 870 from Hawaii, 630 from AK
Opened: 2006
Saguaro Correctional Center, Eloy, AZ
Operated by: Corrections Corporation of America
Contracted with: State of Hawaii
Security level: Medium
Capacity: 1,896
Opened: 2007
State Budget Expenditures on Private Prisons
According to the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC)’s baseline 2011 budget, the state will spend over one BILLION dollars on the Department of Corrections next year. Expenditures on privatized units comprise 58% of the entire Corrections budget. (http://www.azleg.gov/jlbc/11book1/adc.pdf)
Total corrections budget for 2011 $1,091,035,000
New state prison beds (to be privately operated): $74,165,800
Per diems paid to private prison operators: $133,442,000
Provisional (out of state) private beds: $42,832,900
TOTAL PRIVATE $635,936,800
For more information or to get involved, contact:
American Friends Service Committee—Arizona
103 N. Park, Ste 111
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 623-9141
afscaz@afsc.org
