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PA: Residents call loss of prison a blow to Fayette. Project would have created 700 jobs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Residents call loss of prison a blow to Fayette Project would have created 700 jobs Sunday, February 20, 2011 By Julie Percha, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette German Township Supervisor Dan Shimshock spent years coordinating community meetings, doing cost analysis and planning to move forward with construction for a proposed state prison in Fayette County -- a project that energized local residents with the promise of almost 700 new jobs for the economically strapped area. But last week, when the administration of Gov. Tom Corbett canceled the $200 million prison project, Mr. Shimshock said he wasn't notified. "It's just a shame that all this time and effort was spent on a project of this size ... and then to really never have the decency to call and tell us that it is not coming," said Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 20, 2011 (boomark / email).