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TN: New huge prison plans finalized

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 Prison plans finalized BY THE NUMBERS * 900: Existing capacity * 1,444: Additional capacity * 2,300: Eventual capacity * $210 million: Estimated project cost * 2013: Planned opening Source: Tennessee Department of Correction Tennessee Department of Correction officials have finalized the plans for a new prison facility in Bledsoe County. Chattanooga Times Free Press January 11, 2010 The facility will raise the inmate count from 900 at the present Southeastern Tennessee State Regional Correctional Facility to more than 2,300 and add about 250 corrections jobs, officials said. ?This expansion is starting to draw a lot of attention,? facility warden Jim Morrow said. Would-be contractors also have been doing soil testing at the new prison site for the planned geothermal heating system, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).