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NC: Perdue's budget tries again to close inefficient but job-rich NC prisons targeted since 1992

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Perdue's budget tries again to close inefficient but job-rich NC prisons targeted since 1992 Gov. Beverly Perdue's roadmap for narrowing the state's $3.4 billion budget gap for the coming year includes closing seven of the state's 79 prisons, traditionally some of the biggest employers in rural areas. By EMERY P. DALESIO March 17, 2009- Seattle Times Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C. ? Gov. Beverly Perdue's roadmap for narrowing the state's $3.4 billion budget gap for the coming year includes closing seven of the state's 79 prisons, traditionally some of the biggest employers in rural areas. On the chopping block in Perdue's plan released Tuesday include the state's smallest prison ? housing just 36 women in Wilmington who go to work during the day and return to their lockup at night ? and a century-old former tuberculosis sanitarium in Hoke County that for years has served as a sort of nursing home for elderly inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).