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Prison expansion expected to create 300 jobs

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Nashville-based Corrections Corp. of America said it will bring more than 300 jobs to Georgia as it plans to spend $65 million to expand two of its state prison facilities in the state that it has contracts to operate with the Georgia Department of Corrections.

The company said in a press release Wednesday it will expand its Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls, Ga., and Wheeler Correctional Facility in Alamo, Ga., by 1,500 beds, by the third quarter of 2010.

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