HOLDENVILLE — CoreCivic will cease its operations at the Davis Correctional Facility here on Sept. 30, resulting in the loss of 274 jobs. The Tennessee-based private prison operator notified the state Office of Workforce Development pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Bill Hancock, business services and rapid response coordinator with the Office of Workforce Development, announced the layoffs Monday.
Southwest Ledger contacted Holdenville’s former mayor, John Massad, who said “it’s my understanding” that CoreCivic sold the 1,700-bed men’s prison to the state Department of Corrections. CoreCivic has coped with staffing shortages and violence at the private prison for some time.
Ledger efforts Monday morning to contact the Corrections Department were unsuccessful.
The City of Holdenville built the prison, which opened in 1996, and sold it to Corrections Corporation of America, which subsequently rebranded itself as CoreCivic.