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The State of Colorado is learning about what happens when a private prison wants an increase in money and how much power they have. The company is asking for a 5 percent increase in daily per-prisoner payments from the state for each year of the next decade. If they refuse this request the state would have to come up with hundreds of prison beds, soon. The Joint Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction said "Clearly we have a partner right now that has a disproportionate amount of negotiating power as regards us," and he also said "And the fact right now that they can threaten us to the point where we have to put aside hundreds of millions of dollars concerns me."(18 ).

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