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MI: State says it will close women's prison in Detroit area in 2009

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State says it will close Detroit-area prison in 2009 3/11/2008, 6:34 p.m. ET By DAVID EGGERT The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? The state announced Tuesday it plans to close a female prison located in suburban Detroit. The Robert Scott Correctional Facility in Wayne County's Plymouth Township will close in May 2009. It has been open since 1991. Michigan Department of Corrections officials said closing the prison will save $12 million in the next budget year starting Oct. 1 and $36 million a year after that. The state corrections system costs $2 billion a year. About 860 female prisoners at Scott will be transferred to the Huron Valley Complex-Men in Ypsilanti, whose male prisoners will be moved elsewhere. Scott is a reception center for women entering the prison system, and it also houses minimum-, medium- and maximum-security female inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).