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PA: MORE prisons to be built!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Contract Awarded for New State Prison in Benner Township, Centre County HARRISBURG, Pa., June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The state departments of General Services and Corrections today announced that Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Chantilly, Virginia, has been awarded a $174 million contract to build the State Correctional Institution at Benner. The 2,000-bed, medium security prison will be built on state-owned land near the existing SCI Rockview in Centre County. The project is expected to create 600 to 800 construction jobs during its two-year completion process. "Building this facility will help to address an overcrowded prison system that is literally bursting at the seams," said Corrections Secretary Jeffrey A. Beard. The Department of General Services, which is responsible for managing the construction of the design-build project, expects off-site work to begin immediately...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).