A study mandated by the state legislature of the CoreCivic-owned Prairie Correctional facility in Appleton, Minnesota has been posted online, and the conclusions drawn by the third-party architectural firm might not make folks like state representative Tim Miller, R-Prinsburg, happy.
The Klein McCarthy Architects team concluded "Total Capital Expenditures recommended by the [Facility Condition Assessment] over the next 15 years is a cost of $78,695,780" and "Provided there are enough beds available to rent, it is cheaper for the State to rent beds from counties at $55/day rather than lease from CoreCivic for a 5 year lease of $98/day/offender."
As far as purchasing the facility, the report notes: "Total fifteen year purchase and construction value invested by the State of $196.5 million."
Here are the first 22 pages of the assessment:
MN Prairie Correctional Facility - Architectural Assessment (Summary Material) uploaded by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd
Read the entire 241-page MN Prairie Correctional Facility - Architectural Assessment online.
There's another longer report, MN Prairie Correctional Facility - Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) online as well.
CoreCivic is the corporate penal human trafficking rebranding of the firm formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. Learn more about the purpose of the rebranding in Shane Bauer's Mother Jones article, A Stray Email Exposes a Prison Company’s Rebranding Efforts.Teaser: "CoreCivic enlists help from a PR firm that boasts an “aggressive media strategy” for countering journalists."
As we reported in our 2016 post, Swift Co Monitor endorses Falk, & all Tim Miller got was some lousy cash from CCA execs:
[Tim Miller] did manage to snag some campaign cash from Corrections Corporation of America's executives and their spouses, as well as from a couple of CCA corporate lobbyists. From his pre-general election report to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board (available here):
There's $250.00 each from CCA Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President David Garfunkle and his wife Carrie, both of Franklin, Tennessee, followed by the same amounts from CCA Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer Anthony Grande and his wife, as well as from CCA President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Damon Hininger and his wife (page 4 of Miller's 2016 pre-general report).
Former Appleton warden Daren Swenson, now CCA's Tennessee-based Vice President, Facility Operations, Business Unit 2 also gave Miller $250 (page 6 of Miller's 2016 pre-general report).
Finally, there's the $500 each of CCA's corporate lobbyists (Kelly Durham and Brad Regens, page 7 of Miller's 2016 pre-general report) handed over.
All that money must be smooth as Tennessee whiskey for blunting the blow of rejection by Swift County's finest news source (We're not being snarly about the Monitor, whose editor is highly respected among country newspaper people).
An we haven't even touched on CCA's contributions to the Republican State Leadership Committee, which has given $755,000 in the last ten days to the MN Jobs Coalition Legislative Fund. . . .
There's money in that sort of thing.
Photo: The shuttered CoreCivic prison at Appleton.
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