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Notorious Private PRison in Brush, CO, women's prison closing.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Local jobs lost as Brush prison closes Jesse Chaney, Brush News-Tribune staff writer Posted: 06/29/2010 High Plains Correctional Facility will close down after the state takes the remaining inmates away from the Brush prison today. Most of the employees at High Plains Correctional Facility will lose their jobs after the state removes the last remaining inmates from the Brush women?s prison today. ?We have already notified our staffs that most of them unfortunately have to be laid off for now,? said Charles Seigel, spokesman for Houston, Texas-based Cornell Companies, Inc., which owns the Brush prison. The local facility normally employs 83 people, Seigel said, but management has left about half of the positions vacant in anticipation of the closure...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).