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Alaska: Lawmakers have second thoughts on "jumbo" state prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison costs raise concern MAT-SU FACILITY: Lawmakers take new look at privatizing amid budget crunch. By SEAN COCKERHAM Published: March 15th, 2009 JUNEAU -- Legislators are cringing at the cost of the planned new jumbo state prison in the Matanuska-Susita Borough and want to look at turning it into a private prison. That's a topic that in the past proved to be one of the most contentious in Alaska politics. State representatives are also reluctant to pony up an additional $20 million the Palin administration has requested for the $240 million project. Enthusiasm for the project isn't what it used to be before oil prices plummeted, dragging state revenues down with them. Fairbanks Republican Rep. Mike Kelly took over the corrections budget in the state House this year and said that -- if he could -- he would slow the project down...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).