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WA: Death of an island prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Death of an island prison Mcneil Island: Direct savings expected to be $12 million a year ? but closure will raise other costs SEAN ROBINSON AND STACIA GLENN; Staff writers | ? Published February 13, 2011 Up until three months ago, Washington state leaders said closing the McNeil Island Corrections Center was a bad idea, a money-loser. Click here to find out more! The head of the Department of Corrections said it. Budget-crunchers said it. The governor said it. The nation?s last island prison was expensive to run, they agreed ? but shutting it down completely would pencil out in red. A study by the state Office of Financial Management ran the numbers in November 2009. ?If the corrections center were closed, the high cost of operating a prison on an island would be eliminated, but the cost to the state would go up,? the study said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).