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NC: Small prison stubbornly survives through prison labor and poltical clout

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Small prison stubbornly survives The governor wants to close the 94-inmate facility to save money; it just won't go away. May 31, 2009 BY ROB CHRISTENSEN AND BENJAMIN NIOLET, Staff Writers RALEIGH - Union Correctional Center in Monroe is a relic from the 1930s prison road gangs that leaders in Raleigh keep trying to close. Gov. Beverly Perdue wants to shut it down. So does the state Department of Correction. So do the efficiency experts, who say the prison is too small and antiquated to be cost-effective. But the Union Correctional Center has survived the budget knife through a combination of insider political connections, local businesses and governments benefiting from cheap inmate labor, and preachers trying to save souls. In the process, the Union Correctional Center serves another purpose...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).