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OR: PRISONTOWN MYTH- The promise of prosperity hasn't come true for Oregon's rural communities

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

APRIL 2008: RURAL DEVELOPMENT PRISONTOWN MYTH The promise of prosperity hasn't come true for Oregon's rural communities OregonBusiness.com By Ben Jacklet The facility sits on a sweeping expanse of land so remote that it is difficult to determine the nature of its business without moving closer to investigate. Only then do the details come into focus: sniper towers, a firing range and spirals of razor wire extending into the horizon. This is the Snake River Correctional Institution, Oregon?s largest prison, home to 3,000 inmates. Watching over these inmates, feeding them and caring for them, are 872 state employees, 1,000 if you count the contract jobs, putting the Snake River Correctional Institution even with the Ore-Ida plant, where the Tater Tot was invented, as the largest employer in Malheur County...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).