STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Senator Martin Quezada, Senate
Democratic Whip and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
released the following statement on the cancellation of Management &
Training Corporation’s contract to operate the Arizona State Prison Complex-Kingman
and the release of Arizona Department of Correction’s investigation into the
July riots that occurred there:
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Sen. Quezada |
“Terminating MTC's contract for the Kingman prison complex was the
right thing to do, but many troubling questions remain unanswered,” said
Senator Quezada.
“The Department of Corrections has always assured the legislature
that they maintain strict oversight of private prisons, yet now they claim
ignorance of the many failures detailed in their investigation. They can't have
that both ways.
“It's not only time to assess the safety of every private prison in
Arizona, as DOC says they will, it is time to assess the effectiveness of DOC's
own oversight protocols. And it is long past time that we assess the true cost
of private prisons to ensure no more Arizona taxpayer money is wasted in the
private prison industry.
“In today's press conference, Governor Ducey said that private
prisons are the "least bad alternative." We disagree. Escaped
murderers and riots are not a risk we should be willing to take. That is why we
are calling for the cancellation of next month's RFP for 1,000 more private
prison beds, a full and independent accounting of DOC's private prison
oversight capability and a cost/benefit analysis of building and operating our
own state-run prisons.”
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