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Privatising prisons

01 July 1994

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The French company Sodexho, the world's fourth largest contract management company, is teaming up with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to bid for building an running privatised prisons in Europe. Sodexho currently runs non-custodial services in five French prisons. In the UK United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS) a consortium of CCA and two UK construction companies were fined £41,166 in February for losing control at Blakenhurst prison in the Midlands. CCA's president said of the new venture that they expect to: "make a significant impact on the global corrections market at a time when every criminal justice system is seeking financially sound, technically innovative ways to solve their corrective problems".

European, 15.7.94.

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