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DENVER—State Rep. Glenn Vaad said he was stunned when he learned that the Colorado Department of Corrections planned leave a new, $208 million maximum-security prison empty because of the state’s budget crisis.
Private companies are now barred from operating maximum-security prisons. Vaad says the state could change the law and allow a private prison to buy or lease the building. If lawmakers reject that idea, he said it should be sold off and run privately as a medium security prison allowed under current law.
Other state officials oppose the idea.
Attorney General John Suthers says placing maximum security detention into private hands has not gone well in the rest of the country.
