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Massachusetts update on the challenges of the prison economy

By Douglas A. Berman

This Boston Globe article, headlined "Prisons facing $100m in cuts: Fiscal scenario may prompt closings, layoffs," provides a Bay State perspective on the difficulties posed by the modern prison economy.  Here are excerpts: Under increasing financial pressure, the state?s prison system is weighing close to $100 million in budget cuts that could force widescale layoffs and the closure of several facilites at a time of growing fears over inmate overcrowding. Harold W. Clarke, commissioner of the Department of Correction, outlined the bleak fiscal scenario, and its potentially drastic consequences, at a monthly meeting yesterday between top prison managers and union leaders, according to Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).