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| Taxpayers may pay for closing facility |
| By ktnv.com |
| Published: 02/22/2010 |
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The special session of the legislature meets this week to tackle $900 million in budget cuts. One item on the chopping block is a transitional facility for non-violent criminals. It's not necessarily a controversial closing, but taxpayers could still be forced to pay for it. The Casa Grande Transitional Facility is a place for prisoners soon to be released. It's minimum security and inmates are allowed to get jobs to pay for their own rent, go to school and prepare for life on the outside. "They are prepared. They aren't going to go out there and do the crime again, because now they are busy doing something good," Correctional Officer Dino Alfonso, says. Alfonso believes all that preparation will go to waste if Casa Grande is forced to close and inmates are forced to lose jobs, quit school and go back to regular prison life. Read More. |
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