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WA: McNeil Island prison to close April 1

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

DOC: McNeil Island prison to close April 1 Nov 22 2010 The Department of Corrections announced Friday it will close McNeil Island Corrections Center by April 1 as a result of budget cuts. The agency had originally planned to close Larch Corrections Center near Vancouver but determined that closing Larch would not save enough money. DOC will save $6.3 million each year by closing the prison located on an island in south Puget Sound. It would have saved $2 million by closing Larch. The agency must reduce spending by nearly $53 million as a result of across-the-board cuts due to declining tax revenue. "This will save the most money without compromising the safety of our staff, the offenders and the public," Secretary Eldon Vail said. "The budget crisis is causing us to make some of the most painful decisions in our agency's history...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 23, 2010 (boomark / email).