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KS: Leavonworth: Proposed federal prison would boost area economy

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Proposed prison could boost area economy By Mark Fagan February 14, 2008 LEAVENWORTH ? Anticipated construction of a new medium-security federal prison in Leavenworth would be welcome news for the area as the economy continues to slow. ?We?re talking millions and millions of dollars in expenditures, in construction,? said Charlie Gregor, executive vice president for the Leavenworth-Lansing Area Chamber of Commerce. ?This would be for several years, tying up almost all the local contractors with various contracts: concrete, carpenters, wood framing. ?There?s so much that goes into this thing. It?s not like building a big apartment house.? The project would operate alongside the existing U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, the place built in the early 1900s and that for years operated as a maximum-security prison, holding the likes of George ?Machine Gun? Kelly and Robert Stroud, who later would become known as the ?Birdman of Alcatraz...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 14, 2008 (boomark / email).