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ID: House approves $70 million for maximum security prison for mentally ill prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

House approves funding to plan for mental health facility The Associated Press, Edition Date: 03/18/08 Idaho Statesman BOISE, Idaho ? The House has approved $3 million in funding to draw up plans for a maximum security facility for mentally ill prisoners and others in Idaho. House lawmakers voted 66-4 Tuesday to begin planning for the estimated $70 million, 300-bed structure. The building would house both mentally ill prisoners who need treatment as well as violent mentally ill people who have been found unfit to stand trial.The two populations would be kept separate and tended to by different state agencies. The Joint Finance Appropriations Committee has recommended that the state issue bonds for the facility, which could open as soon as 2013...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).