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NC: 3 of 7 prisons saved by Senate for closure. Schools cut.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Senate budget targets schools Haywood prison spared in plan Jordan Schrader April 7, 2009 Citizen Times RALEIGH ? State Senate budget writers released a spending plan Monday that would save money by boosting class sizes, giving fewer tests and prodding city school systems to fold. More than 700 state employees would lose their jobs under the plan that the Senate will consider this week. Others could face furloughs, or unpaid time off. Numerous programs would close, and the state's pair of signature preschool programs would merge. But after local protests, budget writers avoided three cuts that Gov. Bev Perdue proposed affecting how criminals are rehabilitated in the mountains. Prison spared Haywood Correctional Center, an aging minimum-security prison in Hazelwood, comes off the chopping block ? for now...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).