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NY: Shut the prison doors:Legislature should rethink four upstate facilities in these tough fiscal times

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Shut the prison doors: Legislature should rethink four upstate facilities in these tough fiscal times August 6, 2008 Newsday Editorial There goes Albany again. State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) has made a list of programs he refuses to cut to balance the state budget. He has included prison closures, a clear sign that powerful political interests have gotten to him. The numbers alone argue for shuttering four underused facilities. Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer put the four prisons on the chopping block in his budget before he resigned, but the prisons survived the subsequent haggling over the current $121.6 billion budget. Now, Gov. David A. Paterson has asked the legislature to find savings to close a deficit, and the prisons are ripe for another look...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).