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AK: Goose Prison project ---too expensive to finish

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Alaskans deserve better than the not-so golden Goose Creek prison By Ben Brown | For the Juneau Empire March 6, 2011 There was alarming news this week in the Capitol related to a long-awaited capital project that was, at its inception, meant to be an integrally important improvement to Alaska?s correctional system. The Goose Creek Correctional Center is somewhere more than three-quarters completed, and about a year from opening. Even though it is not yet technically behind schedule or over budget, there are still tremendous problems with the project. The most alarming fact disclosed to lawmakers this past week was what it will cost to operate this facility, and what these costs mean to the annual operating budget for the Department of Corrections in comparison to current operations...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).