CITIZENS ADVY. COMM. ON PRIV. PRIS. v. U.S. D.O.J.

Civil Action No. 99-112J.

197 F.Supp.2d 226 (2001)

CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE PRISONS, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

August 7, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Jones, Robert A. Preate, Levy & Preate, Scranton, PA, for plaintiff.

Jessica Lieber Smolar, U.S. Attorney's Office, Pittsburgh, PA, Lori Caramanian, Anthony P. Hoang, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Env. & Natural Resources Div., General Litigation Section, Washington, DC, Jeff Limjoco, Office of General Counsel & Review, Washington, DC, for defendant.


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...

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