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NY: A Saturday Night Deal Means 4 Adult Prisons Stay Open

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"By late Sunday, deals were in place to resolve some of the most difficult issues that have vexed all three parties for weeks. According to officials who had been briefed on the talks, tentative agreements were reached to provide $1.8 billion in additional aid to schools across the state, of which $400 million would go to schools in New York City. Raises for state judges and legislators were not part of the deal, but an additional tax on cigarettes was. And the four prisons upstate that Eliot Spitzer proposed closing when he introduced his budget in January would remain open, the officials said." March 31, 2008 Hope in Albany for Passing Budget on Time By JEREMY W. PETERS NY Times ALBANY ? Legislative leaders and the Paterson administration said Sunday night that it was possible they could complete the state budget close to Monday?s midnight deadline, a task that seemed all but unattainable just hours earlier...continue to full post

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