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NH: Prison Recuiting by BOP

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Going to prison the hard way By: By CORIN HIRSCH, Staff Writer 6/5/2009 BERLIN -- Stay off drugs. Take a few more classes. Gain technology experience. Pay your bills. It isn't advice from parents, a guidance counselor or even a probation officer -- but from a recruitment specialist from the federal Bureau of Prisons. About 125 people attended a Bureau of Prisons recruitment workshop in this former mill town Wednesday night, and were given the lowdown on what they need to do to ready themselves for a potential career in corrections. A year from now, the agency will start hiring staff for the 1,280 bed medium-security prison that is under construction north of the Notches (Pinkham, Crawford and Franconia). The $230 million prison is the second largest public works project in New Hampshire's history, and is expected to open in the fall of 2010...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).