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Fight is on to keep women's prison open Hillsborough Correctional Institution is the only faith- and character-based women's prison in the country.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fight is on to keep women's prison open Hillsborough Correctional Institution is the only faith- and character-based women's prison in the country. By LOIS KINDLE | The Tampa Tribune Published: March 21, 2011 TAMPA - People often try to keep prisons away from their neighborhoods, but a grass-roots effort spurred by Sun City Center residents is bucking that tendency. When Florida prison officials last week announced they would close Hillsborough Correctional Institution in Riverview by June 30, hundreds of volunteers from Tampa Bay area communities and prison ministries, including former inmates of the prison, joined a letter-writing campaign to stop the move. Four volunteers and two former inmates appeared Monday before a Florida Senate subcommittee that deals with prison appropriations at the request of state Sen...continue to full post

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