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Taft Correctional Institution was a low-security federal prison for male inmates located in Taft,
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, owned by the
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(BOP) and operated by
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under contract with the BOP. It also included a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male inmates. The facility opened in 1997 as the first private prison under contract with the BOP; the contract was awarded to Wackenhut Corrections Corporation. The corporation then operated the facility under the name of The GEO Group. In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the BOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings. The agency expects to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire. The facility was slated to close in 2019, but was extended several times into 2020. The congressman for the area at the time was
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opposed the closure. The correctional institute closed on April 30, 2020.


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