Prison layoffs don't surprise mayor, budget adjustments made

YOUNGSTOWN

Mayor John A. McNally said the announcement by the Corrections Corp. of America that 185 employees will be laid off from CCA’s Northeast Ohio Correctional Center doesn’t surprise him.

“It’s not unexpected. We’ve known this day would probably be coming since the day the [U.S.] Bureau of Prisons notified CCA that their contract would not be renewed,” McNally said, referring to the late December notification.

The layoffs, which are expected to occur at midnight May 30, stem from the May 31 expiration and nonrenewal of CCA’s contract with BOP to house 1,400 inmates at NEOCC, the Nashville-Tenn.-based CCA said.

When it announced nonrenewal of the contract for NEOCC, BOP said it had made contract awards to the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Phillipsburg, Pa., and the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla.

“We’ve made some adjustment to our budget already in terms of income-tax receipts” the city is projecting it will receive in the future after the CCA layoffs, the mayor said.

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