District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania August 7, 2001, Civil Action No. 99-112J (Citizens Advisory Committee on Private Prisons, Inc. v. United States Department of Justice)

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.