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CA: Agreement in Principle Signed by Federal Receiver to Build Massive $895 Million Prison "Hospital"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Deal is at hand Agreement on prison hospital isn't perfect but ought to be signed By The Stockton Record April 14, 2010 12:00 AM An "agreement in principle" has been struck between local officials on one side and the federal prison receiver and state corrections officials on the other over construction of a massive prison hospital immediately southeast of Stockton. The deal is not done. The final wording of the tentative pact has yet to be worked out. It has to be approved by all concerned - Stockton, San Joaquin County, the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce, federal receiver J. Clark Kelso, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A hiccup could delay things. Still, it looks like months of public rancor and hand-wringing will end with a deal...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).