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Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) is successful in efforts to seek
out and establish contracts for cost effective privately provided services
to the State's 13 prisons and 26,000 inmates.
General information concerning
privatization efforts reveal the following information:
- Three of the 13 State prisons are
operated in their entirety by private prison companies.
- Two additional privately operated
prisons are to be solicited and scheduled to be placed into operation
during the next 24 months.
- 1,450 beds are in privately operated
prisons under contract with ADC representing 6% of the total
designated bed space.
- 23,717 beds comprise the design capacity
of ADC, to include privately operated prison beds.
- The current inmate population of ADC
distributed among ten ADC operated prison complexes and three private
prisons is approximately 26,100.
MAJOR PRIVATIZATION EFFORTS AND THEIR
DOLLAR VALUE
- Currently seven major operational areas
are engaged in service contracting. Those areas and the dollar value
of me respective contract are
- Privately Operated Prisons $20,770,700
- Food Services for FY 2000 $36,120,400
- Nursing Services $ 1,000,000
- Waste Collection $ 277,000
- Electronic / Radio Maintenance $
250,000
- Vermin / Pest Control $ 124,000
- Waste Water Testing $ 75,000
- The seven privatized services represent
some 10% or $58,617,100 of the FY 2000 total budget for ADC.
Updated on November 09, 1999
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