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PA plans to send 1000 prisoners to VA and 1000 prisoners to MI

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pennsylvania to send 2,000 inmates to other states Monday, December 21, 2009 By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG -- Faced with an ever-growing problem of prison overcrowding, state prison officials have decided to move 2,000 inmates to prisons in two other states -- 1,000 going to Michigan and another 1,000 to Virginia. Prisoners will begin moving out no later than February, Susan McNaughton, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections said today. Some will go to a vacant prison in Muskegon, Mich., and the rest will go to a prison in Chatham, Va. Those sent to the two other states will be inmates who get no or few visitors and those with no serious, ongoing medical or mental health problems. The cost will be $62 per day per inmate, or a total cost of $124,000 per day for all 2,000 inmates...continue to full post

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