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IL: Mayors organize against closing of prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Impact of PCC closing By Sheila Shelton, Staff Reporter Published: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 A number of mayors of towns in and around Livingston County are working together in an effort to stop the closing of Pontiac Correctional Center. The Illinois Department of Corrections and Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced in early May that a plan had been developed to close PCC and move the inmates to the Thomson Correctional Center in northern Illinois. A parade in support of Saving Pontiac Prison is scheduled for this afternoon in Pontiac. Legislators, elected officials and mayors from several county towns are scheduled to walk in the parade. Pontiac Mayor Scott McCoy said he had contacted all the mayors in the county and asked them to walk with him in the parade...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).