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| Lawmakers tour old prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/06/2009 |
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NEVADA - Despite seeing some jerry-rigged arrangements while touring the Nevada State Prison, the Assembly Corrections, Parole and Probation Committee chairman said Thursday that it might be best to keep the old prison open until a budget crisis ends. Assemblyman William Horne, D-Las Vegas, and other members of the panel toured the medium-security prison, which dates to the 1870s, in advance of a committee hearing Tuesday to discuss various Department of Corrections issues. Gov. Jim Gibbons has proposed shutting down the prison to save about $37 million over the next two fiscal years. Corrections Director Howard Skolnik has told lawmakers that the closure is warranted because the prison on the east side of Carson City is in bad shape and unsafe. But Horne said that as he walked around NSP he was wondering whether it matched Skolnik's description "and I didn't get that sense." He added it may be cheaper to keep the old prison going rather than continuing work on a $200 million-plus prison expansion project at Indian Springs, in southern Nevada. "That's one of the policy questions we have to answer," Horne said. "Is it more fiscally responsible to close this and spend a lot of money on a new one, or make do with this one during the fiscal crisis?" The NSP shutdown plan has been questioned by prison [officer] representatives who said shutting down the prison would be a costly mistake that would mean job losses or difficult relocations to other prisons for employees, and that would hurt Carson City's economy. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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