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CT: Prisons In Crisis Mode. Some Want To Open 504-Bed Wing In Cheshire

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctcheshire0206.artfeb06,0,6780283.story Prisons In Crisis Mode. Some Want To Open 504-Bed Wing In Cheshire By KATIE MELONE | Courant Staff Writer February 6, 2008 As legislators have debated how to control the state's spiking prison population, the state has quietly plowed ahead on a multimillion-dollar renovation of a 504-bed wing of the Cheshire prison ? space it plans to keep vacant. Over the years, correction officers and their union have made no secret that they object to reserving the prison's north block for emergencies instead of opening it to ease overcrowding at other prisons. But now, they say, the long-simmering debate over its use has reached a boiling point. The state's total prison population recently reached an all-time high of 19,875, and correction officers say that constitutes the very type of emergency the north block is supposed to address...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).