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CT: State Proposes Closing Minimum-Security Prison In Cheshire

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State Proposes Closing Minimum-Security Prison In Cheshire By CHRISTOPHER KEATING December 2, 2009 Hartford Courant The state is recommending that a minimum-security prison in Cheshire be closed, a move that would have been unheard of during the tough-on-crime days of the mid-1990s. The state Department of Correction wants to close the Webster Correctional Institution, which holds about 220 criminals near the end of their sentences. Gov. M. Jodi Rell sought the department's recommendation as a way to cut expenses while the government tries to recover from the worst economic downturn in decades. Closing the Cheshire prison would save an estimated $3.4 million a year when the state's budget deficit projection for the current fiscal year is approaching $550 million...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).