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| Pa. seeks to operate prisons |
| By Altoona Mirror |
| Published: 11/05/2007 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - As Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections plans to build three more prisons, a state House bill would ensure that the state — not private companies — will operate them. Corrections officials await funding requested in their budgets to build the prisons on existing grounds at Huntingdon, Rockview in Centre County and Graterford in Montgomery County. Private companies could not operate those, or any other prisons in Pennsylvania, if lawmakers pass a bill discussed during a public hearing Oct. 25. It also would instruct a legislative task force to investigate the feasibility of privately run institutions, which supporters say cost the state less, provide better quality inmate care and can solve overcrowding problems. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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