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OH: Kasich plans to sell 5 prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Kasich plans to sell 5 prisons Governor to unveil proposal for two-year state budget; school cuts less than feared? Monday, March 14, 2011 11:51 PM By Alan Johnson The Columbus Dispatch 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 on Tuesday. That budget is expected to include few gimmicks but a wide variety of cuts, including a significant whack to local governments, both in the direct local-government funding and in reimbursements for the eliminated tangible personal-property tax...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).