PHOENIX — 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 not known, 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 Monday the company still isn’t able to say who the customer might be, when the facility will reopen and how many employees it will need to hire to staff it…