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IA: New Maximum Security Prison--A new vision" ?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Penitentiary will express Iowa's vision for its prisons ROX LAIRD May 10, 2009 Des Moines Register One of Iowa's largest building projects was authorized with a single sentence in a legislative spending bill last year: "For the costs associated with the building of a new Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison: $130,677,500." The details of what that new penitentiary should look like were left up to the people who run Iowa's prisons. That may not be unusual for major state projects, but this is not an ordinary building. This project could have a major role in shaping state prison policy and the lives of inmates for generations to come. Iowa has built only one fully maximum-security prison in the past 170 years. Given how long this institution has lasted, it is important that Iowa get it right in designing a replacement...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).