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WA: cut backs for state DOC and making consolidating a prison for women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State might make Larch all-women prison Corrections seeks ways to save funds in face of budget woes Wednesday, December 24 | 9:00 p.m. THE COLUMBIAN, AP State officials are considering making the Larch Corrections Center in Clark County an all-women?s facility. The state?s need to save money during the recession, with $1.9 billion in reduced income predicted in November, is at the core of the idea. Larch, a minimum-security prison for men five miles east of Hockinson, opened in 1955 and is the third-oldest prison in Washington, custody Sgt. Steve Thompson said Wednesday. It has always been a men?s facility and currently has about 370 inmates. Prison officials say an independent forecast calls for the state to need fewer prison beds in the future and it would make sense to close Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women in Medical Lake, Washington?s only women?s prison east of the Cascade Mountains...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 26, 2008 (boomark / email).