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| PA Prison Construction Delayed |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 03/15/2010 |
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HARRISBURG -- State officials wanted to start work months ago on the first of three new prisons to ease crowding in the corrections system, a problem that has forced 2,000 inmates to be shipped out of state. But a groundbreaking date for the first new State Correctional Institution, to be built in Centre County, is still not known, and a major reason can be summed up in three words -- Project Labor Agreement. Rendell administration officials and labor unions favor PLAs, but nonunion builders don't, and the competition between union and nonunion builders for the lucrative prison construction work has been fierce. In 2008, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell's administration signed a deal with union contractors to use PLAs to build the new prisons. The first prison -- SCI Benner, to be located in Benner Township near the existing SCI Rockview -- will cost about $200 million and hold 2,000 inmates. A second new prison will be twice that size -- holding 4,000 inmates and costing about $400 million. It will be built near the aging SCI Graterford in suburban Philadelphia and will be the new home for its 3,700 inmates. The current prison is to be emptied and mothballed. Read More. |
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