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WA: Plan to close McNeil Island prison has many critics Closing McNeil Island prison might save the state millions.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Plan to close McNeil Island prison has many critics Closing McNeil Island prison might save the state millions. It definitely would cost jobs in Pierce County and hurt businesses in Steilacoom. IAN DEMSKY Published: 04/11/09 Fourteen years before Washington became a state, McNeil Island began housing its first inmates. Now, 134 years later, the expensive and isolated prison ? the last of its kind in the country ? faces potential closure as the state Legislature grapples with how to fill a sinkhole projected at $9 billion. By cutting many inmate sentences short by one or two months to free up beds, the Senate Ways & Means Committee calculated that McNeil Island Corrections Center could be closed, saving almost $16 million by the end of this biennium...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).