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LA: Gov. to close Tallulah prison and hopes to sell it to private detention center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The News Star State to lay off 151 in Tallulah ASSOCIATED PRESS JANUARY 6, 2009 BATON ROUGE ? Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to close a $341 million budget gap will cost at least 335 state employees their jobs ? largely in the Department of Corrections ? including 151 in Tallulah The state plans to sell the Steve Hoyle Rehabilitation Center in Tallulah to a private company. LeBlanc said the per-day costs of running the facility were out of line with costs at other prisons. The facility has been a source of controversy for years because it once was a juvenile prison notorious for abuse of the young inmates. It was reopened by the state as an adult substance abuse facility, mostly for convicted DWI offenders. LeBlanc said closing and selling the Tallulah facility may require legislative approval...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).