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"5 prisons to be put on block by state"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this front-page article appearing today in my own Columbus Dispatch.  Here are the details: While Gov. John Kasich's plan to sell four prisons promises to raise much-needed cash for the state, the news isn't so good for affected employees who could see their pay cut by one-third and lose paid health-care benefits.  Kasich is expected to propose selling the prisons, plus the closed Marion Juvenile Correctional Facility, in his two-year budget plan to be unveiled today.... If approved by the General Assembly in the budget process, the prison sales would produce an estimated $200million for state coffers.  In addition, there would be annual savings on operating costs, probably a minimum of 5 percent as required by current state law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).