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IA: Unions praise Gov. for going forward with new prison for women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Unions praise Culver for going forward with Mitchellville prison project Blog post by William Petroski January 5, 2011 Des Moines Register The head of the Iowa State Building and Construction Trades Council said today the state?s decision to proceed with construction of a expanded and renovated state women?s prison at Mitchellville will put hundreds of Iowans back to work. Bill Gerhard, the trades council president, praised Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, for moving ahead with the project. State officials opened bids for the project on Tuesday, and Walsh Construction of Chicago was the apparent low bidder for a total of $52 million in state contracts for general construction and the second phase of site preparation at Mitchellville. Gerhard said Culver?s support for a union-negotiated project labor agreement for the Mitchellville prison work will facilitate the employment of Iowa workers on the jobs, regardless of the source of the low bid...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).