By Bob Christie | AZ Capitol Times
Arizona’s first private prison is again owned by the company that built it in the mid-1990s and then sold it to the state in 2013 for $150,000.
Just what Centerville, Utah, based Management & Training Corp. has planned for the shuttered 500-bed prison in Marana is still unknown, even though the company paid Arizona $15 million for the facility. MTC had run the prison for the state until Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered it closed at the end of 2023 because the state no longer needed the beds.
MTC Communications Director Emily Lawhead said on July 28 that the company still cannot say who the customer might be when the facility reopens, or how many employees it will need to hire to staff it.
