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PA: More new prisons proposed

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

By Richard Gazarik Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 10, 2008 Fayette County officials said Wednesday the state could build one of two new prisons in German Township to handle overcrowding within the Department of Corrections system, which expects to run out of space for inmates by 2010. State, county and township officials met twice this year with corrections department Secretary Jeffrey Beard at the German Township Municipal Building to discuss two potential sites for a 2,000-bed prison that would create more than 500 jobs. "It's 99.9 percent" certain a prison will be built in Fayette, said state Rep. Tim Mahoney of South Union. "In politics, nothing is a sure thing until it's done." Mahoney expects the state to make a decision by fall...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).