Santa Maria Times

September 1, 2011

An 11-year-old lock-up along on the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio has become the first state prison in the nation to be sold to a private company.

Lake Erie Correctional Institution in northeastern Ohio’s Ashtabula (ash-tuh-BYOO’-luh) County is the only one of five state prisons up for sale that will be sold, state officials said Thursday. It’s going to Corrections Corporation of America for $72.7 million.

The four other prisons for sale didn’t generate advantageous offers.

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