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WI: Prison future creates high anxiety in Appleton

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison future creates high anxiety in Appleton Morris Sun Tribune Published Saturday, February 21, 2009 By Tom Cherveny West Central Tribune APPLETON ? Anxiety levels are running high in Appleton, where workers at the Prairie Correctional Facility are fearful that a proposal to transfer inmates to the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault will cost them their jobs. ?Devastating?? is how Appleton Mayor Ron Ronning, himself an employee of the private prison, described the consequences to his community should the facility be closed or mothballed. The mayor was among well over 120 people, most of them employees of the facility, who packed the Appleton Civic Center on Friday morning for a town meeting hosted by State Sen. Gary Kubly, DFL-Granite Falls, and State Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).