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WV Editorial Lauds Moutaintop mining which makes way for "recession proof" prison jobs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"These jobs would not be available in that area had it not been possible, through the use of timbering and the mining of incidental coal, to create the flat land needed." Editorials- Charleston Daily Mail Tuesday April 13, 2010 Prisons do provide recession-proof jobs Creating a nice flat place helped clear the way for McDowell facility AFTER more than a decade of planning, a new federal prison at the Indian Ridge Industrial Park near the McDowell County-Wyoming County line is nearing completion. The prison for men will house 1,152 medium-security and 128 minimum-security criminals, and it will have a staff of 320. The $249 million construction project is 99 percent complete. When opened this fall, the prison will push the state's prison population above 17,000 people, with more than 10,000 of those inmates sitting in federal prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).