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PA: more prisons in planned

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Even if the bills in Pennsylvania get signed into law and all of the policies are implemented, the state is likely not looking at closing any prisons but may have to build only two rather than three new ones, Beard said. "It's important that we move ahead with a couple of prisons," Beard said. "Even if we zero-out growth, we are still over capacity, and we need to take care of the overcrowding." Apr. 21, 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer Prison bills aim to ease Pa.'s burden By Amy Worden Inquirer Staff Writer VERMONTVILLE, N.Y. - Over the last quarter-century, residents of this remote Adirondack Mountains community, who at first reluctantly accepted a state prison in their midst, came to depend on it. It provided jobs and, with the inmate population, brawn for needed services...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).