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| New Prison Plan Raises Many Questions |
| By frontiersman.com |
| Published: 03/19/2010 |
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PALMER — There are going to be more than 1,500 prisoners at the Goose Creek Correctional Center currently under construction in an area far away from city amenities. What are they going to do for water and sewer service? Tuesday, the Mat-Su Borough assembly settled on a plan for the prison being built in the Point MacKenzie area. And, no, it doesn’t involve an enormous septic tank. What it does involve is an unusual, though not unheard of, mix of public and private organizations. In the end, borough officials say, the prison will have its own dedicated wastewater treatment plant and its own field of five to seven water wells. Once it is complete, the state’s Department of Corrections will lease the prison from the borough and eventually purchase it. The borough and DOC are working with Valley Utilities LLC, which has signed on to design, build, finance and operate the facilities, said borough purchasing officer Russ Krafft. The company will bill the Department of Corrections and thus recoup its costs over the lifetime of the prison. “The rates that will eventually be passed onto DOC for this service will be audited every year,” Krafft said. “The rates are designed to have a small profit component, but the majority of the cost is for debt service.” But it’s a lot of debt service. Krafft pointed out that DOC will be paying about $5.35 per day per inmate. Which, to give some perspective, he compared to the Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility’s rate of 53 cents per inmate per day. Read More. |
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