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PA: Cut spending with inmate fees, not guard jobs, union says

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Warning....an infuriating article! Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Cut spending with inmate fees, not guard jobs, union says By Brad Bumsted STATE CAPITOL REPORTER Thursday, February 5, 2009 HARRISBURG ? Inmates who committed crimes from burglary to murder pay token amounts for health care and have access to wide meal variety and reduced-price snacks from the commissary, a union representing prison workers told the Rendell administration. As the state seeks to cut costs, with threatened furloughs of government workers included, Gov. Ed Rendell should know that inmates pay nothing for clothing handed out during their entry into 27 institutions statewide and get free soap and toilet paper, says the memo from the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association obtained by the Tribune-Review...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).