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PA: Rendell's prison plan could lock him up in costly quandary Increased budget likely to cause inmate population to swell

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Rendell's prison plan could lock him up in costly quandary Increased budget likely to cause inmate population to swell Sunday, March 08, 2009 By Daniel Malloy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Excellent chart: http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20090308Correction_population.pdf The nation's economic crisis has put a damper on most new construction, but there's one area where building is booming like it's 1999 -- prisons. Pennsylvania's state correctional facilities are at 114 percent of capacity and several construction projects are in the works to meet demands for space. Gov. Ed Rendell's proposed budget includes more than $1.8 billion for the Department of Corrections, a nearly 10 percent increase dedicated mostly to construction and increased staffing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 08, 2009 (boomark / email).