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MI: Prson Backers Pray to Keep Prison Open

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison backers turn to prayer to save closing facility By Kathryn Lynch-Morin Bay City Times 6-26-09 STANDISH ? About 350 people attended a candlelight vigil Monday at Resurrection of the Lord Catholic Church in Standish to pray for a meeting between local leaders who are committed to saving the prison and Gov. Jennifer Granholm who announced earlier this month that the prison would close later this year. Standish City Manager Michael J. Moran III attended the vigil and said he is still optimistic that Gov. Jennifer Granholm will meet with city and state officials to discuss the closing of the prison. "Hopefully we can give her enough reason to reconsider her executive order," Moran said. "If not, we feel that we have other options we can discuss with her...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).