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PA: Officials present preliminary plans for Graterford Prison replacement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

03/11/2009 WEB EXCLUSIVE ... Officials present preliminary plans for Graterford Prison replacement By: David Hare , For The Valley Item At a Skippack Township Board of Supervisors meeting March 11, state officials presented preliminary plans for two new prisons that will replace Graterford State Prison. The project is part of the state's efforts to address prison overcrowding. The new facility will house up to 4,000 inmates, according to the state's Department of General Services. Design-build requests for proposals, or RFPs, will open in June, said Liz O'Reilly, deputy secretary of public works at the DGS. The design-build concept will enable construction to begin as soon as possible this year by requiring the contractors who win the bid to design the structures as they are being built, according to O'Reilly...continue to full post

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