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PA: New prison coming to Fayette

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New prison coming to Fayette By CHRIS FOREMAN Friday, September 19, 2008 Valley Independent A booming population in the state criminal justice system is causing the construction of at least two new state prisons, including one at a Fayette County site to be determined, Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said Thursday. The new prison, costing as much as $200 million and projected to open within four years, would be the second state lockup built in the county within a decade. Although three properties in German Township are under consideration, the selection of a 200-acre plot for the 2,000-bed, medium-security prison likely won't be announced until next spring. Township supervisors are pushing for construction in their municipality, which will be the site of a $25 million public sewage project and is near a $60 million Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission project replacing a bridge carrying Route 21 over the Monongahela River into Greene County...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 20, 2008 (boomark / email).