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Kansas discusses closing 2 El Dorado prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Kansas discusses closing 2 El Dorado prisons EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) -- Impending budget cuts have prompted the Kansas Department of Corrections to consider closing two minimum-security prisons in El Dorado, although no final decision has been made. "Every aspect of our operation is under review for potential reductions or eliminations in funding" because of state revenue shortfalls, department spokesman Bill Miskell said Friday. The Corrections Department is trying to find ways to cut more than $5 million this fiscal year and more than $13 million for the fiscal year that starts July 1. "We have in the past discussed the possibility of closing several of those minimum-security satellite units at El Dorado, at Lansing and at Norton in Stockton," Miskell said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).