CCA Expands New Mississippi Facility With $30 Million Addition
The $30 million, 564-bed expansion will increase total project costs of the Adams County development to $135 million, officials say.
“Because we are nearing the final stages of the Adams County facility, we felt it was very cost-efficient to proceed right now with expanding that facility,” says Louise Grant, CCA vice president of communications.
Construction is scheduled for completion in December and the facility, which is located on a 140-acre site, is expected to open in spring 2009.
“Although we currently do not have a management contract for the Adams County facility, CCA decided to move forward with increasing the design capacity based on anticipated demand from federal and state agencies,” says John Ferguson, CCA president and CEO.
The Adams County facility is CCA’s fourth detention facility in Mississippi and the Tennessee-based private prison operator’s 67th in the United States. CCA manages the 1,172-bed Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood and the 1,000-bed Wilkinson County Correctional Facility in Woodville for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
CCA also owns the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler and the company completed a 720-bed expansion of the Tallahatchie facility in 2007.
The company is also in the final phase of construction on a separate 848-bed expansion at Tallahatchie — increasing total capacity to 2,672 beds — and has contracted with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
In other news, the private prison operator contracted with the federal government to build and operate a 1,072-bed detention facility in Pahrump, Nev.
Located 65 miles west of Las Vegas, the $83.5 million facility will house inmates for the U.S Marshals Service. The contract, which runs for an initial five-year term and includes three five-year renewal options, guarantees up to 750 inmates.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could also contract to house inmates and detainees at the facility, which is scheduled for completion in 2010.