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OR: Plan will reactivate women's prison. Crowding at Coffee Creek facility prompts transfers to a converted State Street site.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Plan will reactivate women's prison Crowding at Coffee Creek facility prompts transfers to a converted State Street site Nearly a decade after the state closed its crowded and obsolete prison for women in Salem, corrections officials plan to move female convicts back to the same lockup here. Here's why: The Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon's prison for women in Wilsonville, is packed with nearly 1,150 inmates. Prisoner managers are double-bunking inmates and using nearly 60 emergency beds as makeshift measures at Coffee Creek. To ease the crunch, officials plan to shift some convicts to Salem. The women will occupy a fenced compound along State Street, formerly the Oregon Women's Correctional Center. The compound currently operates as a 176-bed men's minimum-security prison, next door to the walled Oregon State Penitentiary, a maximum-security men's prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).