
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, August 26, 1995                   TAG: 9508280061
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                 LENGTH: Short

PRIVATE PRISON PLAN WILL BE HEARD FIRST

The private prison company that wants to build a 1,500-bed facility near Wytheville will be the first of five finalists on the project to make its case Wednesday to state corrections officials in Richmond.

Corrections Corporation of America, which plans to build a prison on about 100 acres of a 500-acre site in Wythe County, is scheduled to go before the Department of Corrections executive committee at 9 a.m. to answer questions and present arguments in favor of its proposal.

The state will give each of the five bidders an hour in the Board of Corrections conference room in Richmond. The bidders will be taken in alphabetical order.

Although the CCA presentation had not been made final Friday, the most likely representatives will be David Meyers, president of the Nashville, Tenn.-based firm, and Don Hutto, a former Virginia corrections chief who is one of its founders.

by CNB