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Idaho: Private Prison For Prisoners Addicted to Drugs and Alcohol to Open

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Idaho drug prison to open in July Idaho Stateman By JOHN MILLER - Associated Press Writer Published: 03/15/10 BOISE, Idaho ? Idaho lawmakers and Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter now aim to staff a new $50 million, 432-bed drug treatment prison starting July 1, despite budget woes that had threatened to push the opening back to September. Department of Correction Director Brent Reinke met separately with Otter aides, as well as Rep. Maxine Bell and Sen. Dean Cameron, on Friday. Bell, R-Jerome, and Cameron, R-Rupert, head the Joint Finance-Appropriations budget writing committee. They agreed Reinke should open the Correctional Alternative Placement Prison, or CAPP, at the start of fiscal year 2011, rather than Sept. 15. David Hensley, Otter's staff attorney, told The Associated Press on Monday that Reinke will try to take advantage of a flexible budget to open the prison now, in hopes of realizing savings later in the year as more inmates are released following treatment - rather than winding up in the state's other, more-expensive medium- and minimum-security prisons...continue to full post

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