The State officials are to oversee the training of Wackenhut staff. Areas of concern include record keeping, performing shakedowns in cells and dealing with gangs. The prison currently holds around 570 prisoners but will eventually hold 1,200 on completion. PPRI's very first attempt at logging on discovered a chat room for investors in Corrections Corporation of America and CCA Prison Realty Trust. The way I see it, we pay pennies for the land, build the prison, and charge premium rates for room and board.
Economic decline increases occupancy and demand for facilities.
The company expects to start running the centre during the first quarter of 1999. Another hanging Prisoner Paula Richardson was found hanging from a shower curtain at Corrections Corporation of Australia's Metropolitan Women's Prison on 11 September 1998. She was the first prisoner to commit suicide and the second to die since the prison opened in 1996. Applications under the Freedom of Information Act for reports on the numbers of attempted suicides and other incidents of self harm that have occurred at CCA's prison have been denied on the grounds of commercial confidentiality. Death at Junee A convicted sex offender was beaten to death on 17 September 1998, less than a week after he was transferred to Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales.