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NC: New women's prison to hold open house

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New women's prison to hold open house November 11,2008 SWANNANOA ? A new prison for women in Swannanoa is holding an open house next Tuesday with tours of the facility. Advertisement Officials will hold a dedication ceremony at 2 p.m., Nov. 18, at the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women, located off of Old U.S. 70. Inmates at the Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women were transferred to the new facility in July. Under a plan approved last year by the N.C. General Assembly, the Department of Correction moved its operations to the northern part of the Swannanoa Valley Youth Development Center while the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention operates a youth development center for male juvenile offenders in the southern section of the campus...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).