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| Prison or hospital? |
| By The Patriot-News |
| Published: 07/22/2008 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - With some residents using wheelchairs, some inching along on walkers and others grasping handrails as they make their way down the hall, Laurel Highlands looks like a typical nursing home. A closer look reveals locked doors at the end of the halls, slam gates leading into the nursing station, metal detectors for visitors to pass through and razor wire outside. Welcome to Laurel Highlands State Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison with facilities that rival nursing homes. The prison, nearly three hours west of Harrisburg, can house 1,050 male inmates. Nearly a third of those are in special care. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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