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01 January 1991

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Privatising prisons
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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.

Statewatch, Vol 4 no 4, July-August 1994

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