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ID: Lawmakers won't consider plan for $190 million 1,500 cage prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Times-News 3/27/08 ID lawmakers get late-session sticker shock, nix $190M prison By JOHN MILLER BOISE, Idaho - State lawmakers have told Department of Correction leaders it's too late in the session for them to even consider a proposal for a new 1,500-bed prison that would cost the state more than $190 million. Brent Reinke, the head of the state prison agency, had been meeting with House and Senate leaders since last week but says the plan is now finished, at least for this year. He had a bill drafted, but it never got a hearing. Lawmakers told him selling 30-year bonds to finance a new prison south of Boise was too expensive an item to consider quickly in the waning days of the session. Now, Reinke says he'll refine his proposal over the summer and may present a new plan to the 2009 Legislature, as part of his solution to house a growing Idaho prison population...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).