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GA: Opening a "nursing home" prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hard-hit Baldwin opens arms to prison jobs Feb. 22, 2011 By MAGGIE LEE - mlee@macon.com ATLANTA -- At least one prison facility is returning to Baldwin County, former home of a large state prison industry, perhaps followed by another. However, the industry would be on a much smaller and specialized scale than in previous decades. A private prison will open in January, while the state is thinking of reopening a mothballed state lockup as a nursing home for elderly inmates. ?Private prisons have their niche ? for that run-of-the-mill, medium security inmate who is not at high risk to hurt others or himself. He?s not mentally ill, he?s not physically ill,? said Brian Owens, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections. The state will spend some $99 million, or about one-tenth of the correction department?s budget, on operating new private prisons next fiscal year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).