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State boosts capacity to save money
By The Associated Press
Published: 05/24/2007

LANSING, MI - State officials want to boost bed space at nine minimum-security prisons in Michigan so another prison can be closed as a way to slow rising incarceration costs.

The state Department of Corrections said the move, which was detailed Wednesday before the Senate Appropriations Judiciary and Correction Subcommittee, will save $10 million a year. It is part of a plan to save Michigan's cash-strapped state government $92 million in the budget year that starts Oct. 1. Read more.

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