The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will prepare a DEIS for a Contractor Owned and ContractorOperated private correctional facility(ies) to house sentenced criminal aliens. The BOP is facing unprecedented growth in its inmate population. As a result, low security federal correctional institutions will be especially impacted. The projected growth in the population of sentenced criminal aliens will further exacerbate these low security population demands.

The BOP will be soliciting for a ContractorOwned and Contractor Operated correctional facility(ies) to house approximately 1,500 low security, male, non U.S. citizen criminal aliens. Proposed facility(ies) may include construction of a new facility, expansion of an existing facility, or use of an existing facility. Fourteen sites throughout Florida, Georgia and Mississippi have been identified by contractors and offered to the BOP for consideration. The proposed sites have been submitted by the following contractors:

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