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Cities to answer state's want ad for new prison
By baxterbulletin.com- Jill Bleed
Published: 08/01/2014

LITTLE ROCK – Cities and counties throughout Arkansas are deciding whether to join the running for a proposed $100 million maximum-security prison, which would bring to town some of the state's most difficult inmates, but hundreds of new jobs.

The Arkansas Department of Correction has given communities until Oct. 24 to submit paperwork if they want to host the new prison, which officials say is needed to accommodate the fast-growing inmate population.

The agency hopes to have a firm proposal in hand when it goes to the Legislature early next year to ask for the funding needed to build it.

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