Cibola County Correctional Center
  Location in New Mexico | |
| Location | 2000 Cibola Loop, Milan, New Mexico |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 35°10′51″N 107°54′25″W / 35.18091°N 107.90705°WCoordinates: 35°10′51″N 107°54′25″W / 35.18091°N 107.90705°W |
| Security class | minimum security |
| Capacity | 1129 |
| Opened | 1993 |
| Managed by | Corrections Corporation of America |
| Warden | Joe Pryor |
Cibola County Correctional Center is a privately owned minimum-security prison for men, located at 2000 Cibola Loop in Milan, Cibola County, New Mexico. The facility first opened in 1993 as a county prison with capacity to house state prisoners, and was then acquired and expanded by the Corrections Corporation of America in 1998.[1] It has a capacity of 1129 inmates, and houses federal minimum-security prisoners under a contract with the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons[2] and the United States Marshal Service.[3]
As of June 2002, 95% of prisoners in Cibola County were undocumented Mexican nationals.[4]
Almost 700 Cibola County inmates staged a non-violent protest of prison conditions on April 23, 2001 and were tear-gassed.[5] In March 2013 about 250 inmates staged another non-violent protest, which was resolved peacefully. Prison officials declined to reveal the reason for the protest.[6]
In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings. The agency expects to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire.[7]
The same month CCA announced that their federal contract had not been renewed. The facility was slated to close as of October 2016, with the loss of about 300 local jobs,[8] although it remained in operations more than a year later, with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract.[9]
References
- ↑ Cibola County through the years 0 comments. "Cibola County through the years - Cibola Beacon: Archives". Cibola Beacon. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ↑ "CCA". CCA. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ↑ "U.S. Marshals Service, Prisoner Services". Usmarshals.gov. 2004-06-03. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ↑ "U.S. Prison Company and Mexico Announce Agreement on Incarcerated Immigrants". Prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ↑ Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, edited by Meda Chesney-Lind, Marc Mauer
- ↑ "Prison on lockdown following inmate protest". Koat.com. 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ↑ Zapotosky, Matt (18 Aug 2016). "Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ↑ "Prison in Cibola County to close in October". KOB-4 New Mexico. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ↑ ICE Plans to Reopen the Very Same Private Prison the Feds Just Closed. The Nation, Seth Freed Wessler, October 27, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2017.