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High Pop. Forces Reopening
By dailytidings.com
Published: 06/14/2010

SALEM— Overcrowding at Oregon's prison for women at Wilsonville has spurred a decision to reopen a women's facility at Salem.

The Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is packed with nearly 1,150 inmates. Prison managers are double-bunking inmates and using nearly 60 makeshift beds.

To ease overcrowding, corrections officials plan to shift some convicts to Salem in a fenced compound that formerly was the Oregon Women's Correctional Center.

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