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PA- Plans for Fayette County canceled - three others continue. Plans to bring 1000 PA prisoners back from MI.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Corbett cancels plans for Fayette County prison By PETER JACKSON Associated Press February 17, 2011 The Corbett administration Thursday abruptly scrapped a 2-year-old plan to build a 2,000-bed prison in Fayette County, saying plans to build three other prisons and expand existing ones will provide adequate inmate housing and render the southwestern Pennsylvania facility unnecessary. The Corrections Department also said Thursday that it is arranging for the return this summer of about half of the more than 2,000 inmates that it transferred to out-of-state prisons a year ago because of severe overcrowding in Pennsylvania prisons. Acting Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, the former county jail warden whom Gov. Tom Corbett has nominated to fill the post full-time, said the statewide prison population remained steady at around 51,000 throughout last year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).