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Plan to ship inmates stirs trouble
By Associated Press
Published: 04/16/2007

PORTLAND, ME - The proposed transfer of 125 inmates to a privately owned prison in Oklahoma as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in Maine prisons has come under fire from civil rights groups and defense lawyers.

The cost of sending the medium-security prisoners out of state would be about $3 million a year, compared to about $4 million if the state boarded them in Maine's county jails. Read more.

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