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IL: Judge Halts Pontiac Prison Closing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Judge Halts Pontiac Prison Closing By Paul Meincke November 18, 2008 (PONTIAC, Ill.) (WLS) -- One of the state's cost cutting measures is closing the Pontiac prison. But a lot of people in Pontiac are fighting to keep the prison open. And on Tuesday they got some help. A judge in southern Illinois issued a temporary restraining order, barring the state from transferring any more prisoners out of Pontiac. Over the last several weeks, more than 200 inmates have been transferred from the state prison at Pontiac to other prisons in preparation for Pontiac's closing. Tuesday afternoon's ruling by a circuit judge in southern Illinois puts a halt - at least temporarily - to those transfers. And that's welcome news in a community fighting to keep its prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).

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