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CT: Prison guards fight closure plan, claim risk

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison guards fight closure plan, claim risk Sunday, December 20, 2009 By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief CHESHIRE ? Corrections officers are vowing to take no prisoners in their fight to keep the Webster Correctional Institution open. But elected officials and the Department of Correction said prison consolidation is going to happen ? the state?s prison population is shrinking and the budget crisis isn?t going away. It would take a huge groundswell of public opposition to the closing to convince Gov. M. Jodi Rell to change her position that the Department of Correction should investigate closing one of the state?s correctional facilities because of dwindling inmate populations. And while Rell never came out and formally ordered the Webster Correctional Institution closed, Correction officials have been moving steadily ahead with the closing, which will save the state an estimated $3...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).