Legal Opinion
Citizens Advisory Committee on Private Prisons, Inc. v. United States Department of Justice
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 7, 2001No. Civil Action No. 99-112JPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
D. BROOKS SMITH, Chief Judge.
In December 1998, Cornell Corrections Inc. (“Cornell”) submitted a proposal to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“Bureau”) to house over 1,000 federal inmates in a private prison that it hoped to build in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. In April 1999, the Bureau awarded Cornell the contract and Cornell moved forward with construction of the new facility. Within weeks, plaintiff Citizens Advisory Committee on Private Prisons, Inc. (“CACOPP” or “plaintiff’)1 sued the Bureau and the United States Department of Justice (“defendants”), seeking…
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