Private prison seeks continued public support

YOUNGSTOWN

The company that operates the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road wants local residents to continue writing to their U.S. senators and representatives and to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in support of renewal of the bureau’s prisoner housing contract here.

BOP’s contract to house 1,507 immigrant prisoners at NEOCC expires May 31, 2015.

Steven Owen, senior director of public affairs for the Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corp. of America, which owns NEOCC, said he expects the bureau to make its decision in October on where to house these prisoners in the future.

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