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Pa. Corrections Official Defends Moving of 2,000 Inmates
By kyw1060.com
Published: 12/31/2009

A top Corrections Department is defending the decision to move 2-thousand Pennsylvania prison inmates to two other states.

Executive deputy corrections secretary Bill Sprenkle told the House Judiciary Committee that Pennsylvania’s state prison system is at 120-percent of capacity, and there’s nowhere to put inmates in the event of an emergency:

“Quite frankly, we’re now at a situation where we have to take immediate action and the out-of-state placement is really our only alternative.”

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