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OK: For profit "Christian" prison proposed!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ministry's prison plan still on hold By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer Published: 5/17/2010 A private firm proposing a prison in Wakita with all born-again Christian staff and programming does not yet have the commitments for prisoners it needs to begin construction. Bill Robinson, the founder of Corrections Concepts Inc., a Dallas nonprofit prison ministry that is leading the proposal, said the bonding company that is financing the project will not release funds to begin construction until states or other jurisdictions have agreed to send 285 prisoners to the 624-bed facility. "We're still working to get the adult facility done," Robinson said. He said California has expressed an interest in sending adult inmates to Wakita, and he is in discussion with Kansas about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).