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Unneeded prison in Nevada eludes budget ax

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The state's opportunity to save $12 million had lost out to concerns about how the closing would affect guards who work there and the struggling economy of Carson City, the state capital." "The prison is a classic example," says businessman Bruce James, chairman of the Nevada Spending and Government Efficiency Commission, a governor-appointed panel that's advising the state on how to do more with less. "The union is opposed to closing closing the prison, and the Legislature doesn't have the backbone to do it." "I told everyone they needed to be very careful about closing that prison because while we want what's best for Nevada, we also have to think about what's best for the local economy," says Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell, a lawyer. "That's 136 jobs and 136 families that could be hurt...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).