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VT: Legislature using budget bill to keep St Johnsbury prison for the jobs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Legislature using budget bill to save St Johnsbury prison Fri May 8 2009 The Legislature has included in the state budget language intended to keep open the prison in St Johnsbury. Among the Douglas Administration's budget reduction proposals was closing the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility and laying off most of the employees. The inmates likely would be sent to prisons out of state. It costs the state less to pay another state to house inmates than to incarcerate them in Vermont. The House and Senate Appropriations Conference Committee included language that would require the governor to get legislative approval before he could close the prison. ?The prison in St Johnsbury is a vital part of our economy in the Northeast Kingdom, which is why I worked closely with the conference committee to make sure this language was included in the budget,? said Representative Robert South, D-St...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 09, 2009 (boomark / email).