Pennsylvania Private Prison Construction Halted For Environmental Assessment

Loaded on March 15, 2009

Filed under: Cornell Corrections, DOC/BOP misconduct, Conditions of Confinement, Environmental Law, Settlements, Administrative Procedures Act (Federal), National Environmental Policy Act. Location: Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania based Citizens Advisory Committee on Private Prisons, Inc. (CACOPP), filed a complaint against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for bypassing environmental and administrative policies in the contracting of a private prison's construction. The construction was halted pending the requisite procedural compliance.

The BOP contracted the building of ...

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