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CA: Can a new prison save a town?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Can a new prison save a town? By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times May 3, 2010 Wanda Leung sits at her restaurant's cash register, flipping through a newspaper. It's lunchtime, but the turquoise stools at the counter are empty. Drought has stripped the area of farm jobs. Men in cowboy hats wander the dusty streets looking for work. Every month, Leung takes $1,000 out of her bank account to pay the bills and keep her Lucky Restaurant open. "This town is dead already," said the Chinese immigrant, who once earned enough from her business to put her two children through college. Like other merchants in this town 35 miles west of Fresno, Leung is hoping her fortunes will change when the federal government opens a 1,100-inmate prison just down the road, bringing jobs and paying customers to the area...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).