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Feds Will Not Contract With Firm Operating Youngstown Prison

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Associated Press
Published December 30, 2014 at 6:14 AM EST

A spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons says a contract with a private prison in Youngstown for low-level offenders will not be renewed. Inmates at Northeast Ohio Correctional Center will be moved to private prisons in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, owned by Florida-based GEO Group.  The Youngstown facility is owned by Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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