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CA: City of Adelanto Wants To Build New Prison With 6,100 Cages

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Adelanto wants to build new prison November 13, 2010 Natasha Lindstrom ADELANTO ? The city is negotiating with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to build a new prison in hopes of creating 2,000 jobs and bringing up to $5 million annually into city coffers. The city?s goal is to strike a state prison deal just as California struggles to meet a federal mandate to reduce prison overcrowding, in part by sending more than 10,000 inmates to privately operated prisons in other states. ?The state has a need, and we have a desire for employment in this area,? City Manager Jim Hart said. ?What we?re telling them is you should essentially work with somebody in California to bring those inmates from out of state back here,? so the local population can benefit from job creation and sales and property tax benefits...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 14, 2010 (boomark / email).