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MA: Possible closing of 4 prisons....although reality of it very doubtful

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Boston Globe Prisons facing $100m in cuts :Fiscal scenario may prompt closings, layoffs By Jonathan Saltzman and Peter Schworm Globe Staff / September 11, 2009 Under increasing financial pressure, the state?s prison system is weighing close to $100 million in budget cuts that could force widescale layoffs and the closure of several facilites at a time of growing fears over inmate overcrowding. Harold W. Clarke, commissioner of the Department of Correction, outlined the bleak fiscal scenario, and its potentially drastic consequences, at a monthly meeting yesterday between top prison managers and union leaders, according to Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union. Clarke told union officials the state is considering closing as many as four prisons and laying off 300 employees, Kenneway said...continue to full post

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