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CT: Rell Pushing Ahead With Plan For Detention Center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Rell Pushing Ahead With Plan For Detention Center By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER December 30, 2009 Plans to build a girls' juvenile detention center in Bridgeport are back on, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Tuesday, two months after her administration temporarily withdrew the proposal amid criticism from the city's legislative delegation. The State Bond Commission is expected to approve $15 million for the facility's design and construction when it meets Jan. 8, Rell said in a statement Tuesday. The proposed 36,000-square-foot, 24-bed facility is meant for girls 18 and under who have been convicted of delinquent offenses. The state has not had a secure facility for girls since Long Lane School in Middletown closed in 2003. Since then, some girls have been confined at York Correctional Institution for adult women, a situation that child welfare officials have decried...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 30, 2009 (boomark / email).